Quotes About Fear

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

Imagination makes cowards of us all.

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well, ... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagination. If I had the same imagination I won't sleep too!

The root of all fear is imagination.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.

He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night good Lord deliver us!

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.