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Quotes About Fear

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.
~ Tony Blair
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.
~ Teju Cole
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
~ James A. Forbes
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
~ Christopher Lasch
I remember the first time I climbed the cage - it was almost like a challenge from Snuka. I said, 'This is crazy. This is absolutely crazy!' I went ahead and did it but I only did it a couple of times. It scared me half to death.
~ Ricky Steamboat
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
~ David Cronenberg
Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
~ Queen Latifah
I served 18 months in Northern Ireland and that was very scary. I remember when we were told do you want the good news or the bad news first. We wanted the good news - we're going to Cyprus. The bad news? We're going to Northern Ireland first. All the black blokes looked at each other and thought, 'that's really funny.'
~ Nigel Benn
I want to be remembered as a Miss Universe who overcame her fears and helped other women overcome theirs.
~ Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'
~ John Searles
People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'
~ Michael Madsen
I have had fear in the past, yes. I've learned to fight it. But I still have my moments. I just have to remind myself that fear is all within your mind, and that you're only holding yourself back when you give in to it. Even fear of success can be scary.
~ Christina Milian
I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.
~ Peter Stormare
We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
~ Ron Fournier
Doing 'Mamma Mia' was scary full stop, so playing a young Colin Firth was even more intimidating. I just had to keep reminding myself that I was playing Harry and not Colin Firth, which psychologically felt better.
~ Hugh Skinner
I hate light... I feel like at night, it's safer. If anything happens, there's a way to hide at night. Another thing I hate about light is it reminds me about being in a refugee camp and being outside.
~ Clemantine Wamariya
I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.
~ Billy Collins
I like to think in an emergency situation, I'd act in a really brave way. But the truth is if I ever did get in a situation that looked remotely dangerous, I'd fall on my knees and start crying.
~ Daniel Rigby
Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.' Everybody knows that you don't even go there.
~ Kevin Connolly
Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.
~ Ted Cruz
The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy.
~ Michiko Kakutani
I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.
~ Jacob Zuma
Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg