Quotes About Fear

The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.

The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists, who as children we'd been taught to fear, kept a resistance movement alive, living and dying true to their ideals.

Too many times we just think about our ideas, and we let people convince us not to do it.

Perhaps 'Borderlands' can be a lesson for all of us - that when making a videogame, we should not be afraid to identify gamers as the audience.

There is fear of impoverishment as a narrowly based ideological government, infused with medieval religious rectitude, lays waste to the Egyptian economy, which, given the economy's precariousness, is a clear and present danger to the daily life of millions of Egyptians.

It's great to be thought of as the master of anything. Even idiocy. Master of idiocy, Wes Craven. But if it's master of horror or fear or whatever, that's great.

You don't want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Ignorance breeds fear.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.