Quotes About Fear

In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

Life is a four-letter word.

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Life is first boredom, then fear.

Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.