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Quotes About Fear

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
~ Neil Gaiman
Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.
~ Paul Klee
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
~ Peter Gabriel
You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.
~ Ram Dass
Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.
~ Richard Siken
People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.
~ Joelle Charbonneau
As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
~ Jordan Peele
Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do...even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.
~ Joyce Meyer
I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.
~ Kanye West
That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.
~ LeBron James
I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.
~ Lily Rabe
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
~ Martha Grimes
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.
~ Michael Ignatieff
I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
~ Philip K. Dick
The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.
~ Oscar Isaac
It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
~ Randy Harrison
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
~ Rian Johnson
The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream.
~ Robin Sharma
Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.
~ Roger Ebert
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
~ Ronald Reagan
It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.
~ Samuel Johnson
I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.
~ Shirley Jackson
Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.
~ Toni Braxton
My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
~ Veronica Roth