Quotes About Fear

I feel like before music, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I didn't know where I was going to end up. I was scared to even have people depending on me.

As someone who was once in the closet, I can tell you it is the most sad, dark, awful, depressing place to ever be.

All depression is fear-based.

The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn't let that fear dull your desire to win.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.

When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

I was kind of a scaredy-cat as a kid, and I made a very deliberate decision at some point that I was not going to let fear rule my life or determine my experience. That wasn't so easily accomplished.

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

I want to fight the McCarthyist state that's developing in this country so my kids won't live in a world where people are afraid to speak out.

If your entire relationship with money is devoid of fun, money becomes something you fear and loathe rather than something to celebrate and enjoy.

People suffering from cancer, or diabetes, or asthma or any other preexisting condition shouldn't have to live in fear of losing their coverage or seeing their premiums go through the roof.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.