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Quotes About Fear

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes I smile so big, I get scared that my face is gonna explode.
~ Demi Lovato
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
~ Winston Churchill
Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.
~ Adrian Rogers
When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid.
~ Megan Hart
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.
~ Greg Bear
People can smile even when terrified.
~ Nisio Isin
I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!
~ J.R. Ward
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
~ Moliere
So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.
~ Veronica Roth
I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.
~ Rick Riordan
I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.
~ Veronica Roth
Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I'm afraid of landing. [He's laughing, and I'm smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don't you know what comes next?
~ Ann Aguirre
Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
~ James M. Barrie
Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.
~ Janet Evanovich
Just a smile from the right person can delete fear, cancel unhappiness, and even dissolve physical pain.
~ Doug "Ten" Rose
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
~ Bryan Stevenson
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
~ Rollo May
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
~ Patrick J. Kennedy
You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
~ Hermann Hesse
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
~ Carter Burwell
In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.
~ James Purdy
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz