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Quotes About Fear

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.
~ Richard Armitage
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
~ Joan Rivers
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
~ J. K. Rowling
The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.
~ Theodore Zeldin
By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.
~ T. Harv Eker
I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.
~ Brad Stine
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
~ Erich Fromm
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
~ Paul Eldridge
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
~ William Allen White
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
~ Aldous Huxley
The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.
~ Unknown
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
~ Norm MacDonald
Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow
~ Matt Wagner
Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.
~ Esther Hicks
Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.
~ Frank Abagnale
One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
~ Matt Dillon
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
~ William Gilmore Simms
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
~ T. S. Eliot
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
~ Louis L'Amour
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery