Quotes About Fear

I just write when fear overtakes me.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

What is fear of need but need itself?

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

Fear is vision without hope.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?