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Quotes About Fear

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
~ Aesop
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
~ Thomas Fuller
I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
~ Richard Gere
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
~ Franklin P Jones
If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you...then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.
~ Tom Wilkinson
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
~ Munshi Premchand
But in my opinion, bravery isn't about the absence of fear. Being brave is when you're absolutely terrified, yet you can make yourself face your fears, no matter how scared you are.
~ Unknown
I'm only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. - Mufasa
~ The Lion King
Being scared is a fact of life. Even the bravest people in the world are scared. What separates the brave ones from the wimps is that they don't let their fears turn into excuses.
~ Unknown
The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.
~ Unknown
Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, 'Get the heck out of my way, I've got things to do.'
~ Unknown
Courage isn't a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway. -The Third Doctor
~ Doctor Who
Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.
~ Jeffrey Fry
I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
~ Barry White
My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
~ Bo Derek
Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.
~ Stephen King
It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
~ Sarah Dessen
He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.
~ Tina St. John
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
~ Walt Whitman
When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.
~ Curtis Jackson
Death frees the beast.
~ Clive Owen
Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.
~ Damien Hirst