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Quotes About Fear

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.
~ Patricia Briggs
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
~ Patty Duke
The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.
~ Paul Beatty
I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn't quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid.
~ Paul Reubens
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
~ Plutarch
When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.
~ Rachel Caine
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
~ Elvis Costello
I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.
~ Emma Bunton
For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.
~ Fiona Apple
When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.
~ Fran Lebowitz
One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.
~ Francis Chan
Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.
~ Frederick Lenz
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Have you ever considered that there isn't a safe time to be around you?
~ Gabrielle
Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not."... I guess they were pretty spectacular.
~ Gilbert Morris
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
~ Gloria Swanson
Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.
~ Grant Cardone
There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time.
~ Hannah
I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
~ Harlan Coben
In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.
~ Hassan Blasim