Quotes About Fear

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Fear can be overcome by faith.

The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear