Quotes About Fear

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

No one vinces me, baby

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

You're afraid of your own anger.

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.