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Quotes About Fear

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
~ Lewis Thomas
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1825
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
~ George A. Romero
I did not say she was alive, my child... I go no further than to say that she might be Un-Dead.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
~ George A. Romero
Exercise! — because zombies will eat the slow ones first.
~ Internet meme
As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
~ Author Unknown
Hope, not fear, is the creative principle in human affairs... Those who are taught in this spirit will be filled with life and hope and joy, able to bear their part in bringing to mankind a future less somber than the past, with faith in the glory that human effort can create.
~ Bertrand Russell, 1917
Old Custom, which to-day allows Addresses such as this; When timid lovers breathe their vows, And sing of promised bliss; Emboldens one, who else would fear To make his feelings known...
~ Theodore Hook, "Valentine"
Dr. Zachary T. Bercovitz told me: "Some people are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds." Asked to specify these diseased thoughts, he replied, "Oh, the usual — fear, guilt, worry, frustration, tension, resentment, gloominess, despondency. In fact, if fear and resentment were eliminated from people's minds I believe our hospital population would be reduced by maybe fifty per cent. Certainly by a lot anyway."
~ Norman Vincent Peale
My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II. I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad.
~ Matt Donaher
i vomit confusion & butterflies i sweat fear and i bleed dread i fall deaf from society's lies i gag on metallic tastes of pain i run from the reek of regret i save my minutes & lose my hours i dance on the minefield of mind i freeze my worries for later...
~ Terri Guillemets
To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
Criminal Minds, Bad Moon on the Rise: "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."
~ Curt Siodmak
In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.
~ Author unknown, c. 1930s
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
~ French proverb
Just tested positive for claustrophobia.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
~ Ronald Reagan, 1986
Time is painted with wings, and is bald behinde; should we not fear, and catch Time by the forelock?
~ Nathanael Vincent, 1670s
Automobiles are not ferocious... it is man who is to be feared.
~ Robbins B. Stoeckel, c.1931
Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When we focus on faith rather than fear, anything becomes possible.
~ Gail Lynne Goodwin