Quotes About Fear

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

I'm not afraid to die.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what's going to happen to a guy like me when it's over? What happens when the show dies in maybe five years? Do I die too? No! I want to go on with other things.

For some reason, some kids have a fear of food. Some adults do, too. The best cure for that is to try a lot of different kinds of things. The more you try, the more experiences you have.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.

The more we work to remove our fears and insecurities, the more aware we become of the interworkings of the universe and tap into the laws of nature, which, to most, will appear like we're doing some magic trickery.

As a younger guy, no one wants to be on a highlight or somebody's mix tape for their best plays of the year. For me, earlier in my career, that was something where 'I'm not sure if I should go for this,' not trying to get dunked on.

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.

The less said about Inner Space Fungus the better. I've still got the tapes in my house, but I'm afraid to play them back for fear that bacterial growth will take over my house.

I think tapping into one's power and one's potential is a very frightening thing.

My ability to be emotive and cry... I think I'm so fearful of tapping that that I won't know how to turn it off.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

While I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear because he spent many months stoking it.

Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.