Quotes About Fear

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

A car is just fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.

I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o'clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can't be much fun.

I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

Fear is the mother of morality.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head