Quotes About Fear

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Worry is a waste of imagination.

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don't think that's healthy.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.