Quotes About Fear

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

When Jesus wept, the falling tear in mercy flowed beyond all bound; when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all the guilty world around.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

Always do what you're afraid to do.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.