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Quotes About Fear

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
~ David Mitchell
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
~ Confucius, The Analects
The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.
~ Abhijit Naskar
People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.
~ Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.
~ Jeyn Roberts, Dark Inside
Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.
~ Maximillian Degenerez
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore.
~ Demetri Martin
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
~ Konrad Adenauer
To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.
~ Joan Rivers
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Love is like skydiving without a parachute.
~ Lois Greiman, Unmanned
People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.
~ Emo Philips
The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.
~ Martin Luther
One time I stayed at a haunted motel. When I checked into my room, there was a sheet on the floor, and I thought it was a ghost that had passed out, so I kicked it.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Snoring keeps the monsters away.
~ Judy Blume, Fudge-a-Mania
I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
~ Emo Philips
Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!
~ Dylan Moran
Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"
~ Mitch Hedberg
I told my doctor I wonna stop aging, he gave me a gun!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Even snakes are afraid of snakes.
~ Steven Wright
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
~ Dave Barry
Have you ever noticed that your ugliest friend is most afraid of being raped?
~ Natasha Leggero