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Quotes About Fear

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.
~ Ludwig Borne
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
~ Pierre Corneille
Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.
~ Byron Katie
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
~ Aaron Hill
Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.
~ George Horace Lorimer
Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
~ Samuel Johnson
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
~ William Hazlitt
He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
~ Statius
The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.
~ Robin Sharma
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
~ Sting
It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.
~ Maureen Dowd
Fear guides more than gratitude.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.
~ Sylvia Plath
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
~ Joseph Addison
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
~ Joyce Maynard
Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
~ Epicurus
No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.
~ Maria V. Snyder
Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
~ Demonax
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
~ Seth Godin
I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.
~ Nikki Cox
An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.
~ Method Man