Quotes About Fear

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.