Quotes About Fear

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

Fear is essential for courage.

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.