Quotes About Fear

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

Fear that man who fears not God.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Hell is indefinite.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

To be honest, while every market is very different, we are all still fundamentally moved and inspired by similar human truths - love, fear, belonging, desire, and so on.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.