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Quotes About Fear

The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.
~ John Capozzi
They terrify lest they should fear.
~ Tacitus
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
~ Kenny Werner
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
~ Gregory Benford
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.
~ William Shakespeare
People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.
~ Immortal Technique
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
~ Paul Tsongas
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
~ Emile M. Cioran
It's important to only think about what you desire, not what you fear.
~ Doreen Virtue
In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.
~ Rohinton Mistry
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.
~ Shirin Ebadi
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
~ Andrew Cuomo
This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.
~ Madison Cawein
I tend to scare myself.
~ Stephen King
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
Courage and fear were one thing too.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
~ Taylor Swift
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
~ Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Fear is the brother of hate.
~ Larry Niven
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
~ Isabelle Adjani