Quotes About Fear

My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

ThereÂ's a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.

what you fear, you invite.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see—what I don't fear!

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality