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Quotes About Fear

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.
~ Lord Chesterfield
It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
~ Michel de Montaigne
'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.
~ Rachel Bloom
I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.
~ Joan Didion
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
~ Karl Kraus
All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
~ John Stossel
Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.
~ Sam Snead
Frozen by fear. Not able to move. Your mind screaming
~ James Dashner
That which you fear the most will meet you half way.
~ Victoria Williams
It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.
~ Garth Brooks
Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.
~ David Foster Wallace
Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid
~ Joyce Meyer
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
~ Vikram Seth
The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.
~ Dana Gould
Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection
~ Nir Eyal
Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change -- without fear.
~ Debra Messing
The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.
~ Sam Snead
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
~ Sylvia Plath