Quotes About Fear

Grandma, please don't go. I'm frightened., Grandma. I need you!" "…never be afraid, Cassie. There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it…

The same common-sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

There are certain people who so ardently and so passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

That man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage.

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

He was a free thinker, and had little faith in God, although his name was constantly on his lips. He had lived too long, and mixed too much with men, to believe that God meddles much with the affairs of this world; on the other hand, he had a strong belief in the devil, of whom he stood in great fear.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Whoever pretends not to believe in ghosts of any sort, lies to his own heart. Every man is haunted by ghosts... thought most of us (poets excepted) are unwilling to confess the acquaintance.

Criticism is a life without risk.

To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man. Having

his delirium, did not fear the Apalaches who had been following our procession ever since we began our march to Aute. The Apalaches were such skilled archers that their bows seemed to us like limbs, parts of their bodies they could use with unconscious ease. They could shoot

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.

I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.

If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.