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Quotes About Fear

When you're young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that's what you want to do, stand out.
~ Gabriella Wilde
The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
~ Ann Voskamp
I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.
~ Annie Dillard
You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.
~ Bruce Campbell
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.
~ Carol Vorderman
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
~ Charles Frazier
I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.
~ Orson Scott Card
I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.
~ Ani DiFranco
I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.
~ Brett Favre
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don't want it to last.
~ Candace Bushnell
I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I think a lot of people are afraid of freedom. They want their lives to be controlled, to be put into a box... Why should someone put a limit on how much fun I can have, how much I can accomplish?
~ Drew Carey
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.
~ George R. R. Martin
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".
~ Guillermo del Toro
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
~ Isabel Allende
I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
~ Janet Evanovich
With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.
~ Jordan Peele
I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.
~ Julianna Baggott
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
~ Klaus Kinski
Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.
~ Nathan Fillion
I still feel like I have so much to learn. I love that feeling, that next time I go to set, I will be terrified again. I don't want it to be any other way.
~ Penelope Cruz
Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.
~ Rashida Jones