Quotes About Fear

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Fear could never make a virtue.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Now I know it's because somewhere in my mind, I still harboured hatred and fear for that man, so it was just easier to erect the brick wall and never look back.

So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

There is no devil but fear.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Fear could move mountains if fear only tried.

I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

It's like a haunted house we can't leave, ' Neil said.A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought.

Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...

Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.

Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.