Quotes About Fear

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?" Adam asked as we went back upstairs. "Sometime," I told him. "When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.

Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?