Quotes About Fear

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

Fear comes with middle age.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run!

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.