Quotes About Fear

I'm so afraid of confrontation.

I was too shy to be confronted by any kind of audience.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

I believe that you can't know courage without conquering fear, and you can't really know joy without knowing sadness.

I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

If I have a combination of calm and fear, I access mental states way beyond normal consciousness. That's why I choose to do scary things.

When I do stuff where death could be a real consequence, it makes me want to live right.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.

Sometimes, when I'm surrounded by a lot of people, I shake, I'm so nervous.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

I suppose I have been contending with issues surrounding my safety and security for years.

All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy neighbours.

When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.