Quotes About Fear

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.