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Quotes About Fear

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
~ Stephen King
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
~ Lauren Oliver
Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.
~ Frederick Hart
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
~ Henry Miller
Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
~ Margaret Mitchell
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
~ Paul Valery
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
~ Albert Einstein
Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.
~ Edward Kowalczyk
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.
~ Robert Ludlum
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
~ Suzanne Collins
A man without hope is a man without fear.
~ Frank Miller
Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you're not afraid of heights.
~ Gavin DeGraw
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G.K. Chesterton
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
~ Albert Einstein
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.
~ George Monbiot
It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
~ Caryl Chessman
Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
~ Laozi
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
~ Bob Goff
A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear.
~ John Lennon
I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.
~ Roy Keane
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
~ Ovid
Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.
~ Dominic Lawson