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Quotes About Fear

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.
~ Ellen Hopkins
My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.
~ Elliott Gould
I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.
~ Emma Stone
Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.
~ Robin Sharma
My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.
~ Edgerrin James
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
~ Edmund H. North
But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.
~ Unknown
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
~ Elie Wiesel
What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.
~ Shirley Hazzard
As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.
~ Emma Goldman
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
~ Epicurus
best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.
~ Eric Rucker Eddison
We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.
~ Ronald Reagan
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.
~ Eric Zorn
I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
~ Faith Hill
The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
~ Tess Gerritsen
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
~ Fay Weldon
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
~ Florence Welch
Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
~ William O. Douglas
The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
~ Francine Pascal
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
~ Francis Bacon
The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
~ Wilson Mizner