Quotes About Fear

Egotism fears its own self.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

How you react doesn't tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?

You can't let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.

where there is never sunshine darkness isn't a scary thing

The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.

There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of.

Horror is a situation, not a character, no matter how evil one may be.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

Fear of night. Fear of not night.

I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.