Quotes About Fear

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

A world without law and order is a very scary place.

At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This confines us and stifles us.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

I avoid subways like the plague because I'm claustrophobic.

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

You may hate the pilot but you don't want the plane to crash.

If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.

I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

I was in a plane that lost an engine flying from Dallas to England. It happened over the Newfoundland Sea, and it was dark, and they took away our drinks, and it was scary. I thought I was gonna die.

There is this thing called catastrophic thinking - you start thinking that something catastrophic is going to happen. I get on a plane and I think it's going to crash, I just know it's going to crash, so you're petrified.

Heights are a problem for me. I'm not a brave flier and I'd never jump out of a plane or do a bungee jump.

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.