Quotes About Fear

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

If I were scared of rednecks, I would've moved on a long time ago. That's not a fear I struggle with.

That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.