Quotes About Fear

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.