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Quotes About Fear

Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
~ William Faulkner
When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
~ Jean Craighead George
Fear is the greatest predator you encounter on your journey to greatness.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
~ Mark Rutherford
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
~ Federico Fellini
A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
~ George Matthew Adams
It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.
~ Joyce Rachelle
I don't like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.
~ Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden
It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
~ Ellen Hopkins
She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.
~ Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.
~ Sophocles
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
~ Allen Klein
Humor acts to relieve fear.
~ Unknown
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
~ Warren Farrell
Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
~ Anupam Kher
Many people still feel so scared about spirit or ghost, not yet realizing that there are so many unidentified living creatures on this planet earth which might be even more dreadful.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.
~ Unknown
If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.
~ Katharine Butler Hathaway
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
~ Vauvenargues
Men do not fear swords...they fear monsters.
~ Unknown
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
~ Unknown
Fear is the prison of the heart.
~ Anonymous