Fear Quotes

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.