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Quotes About Fear

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
~ Carson McCullers
I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.
~ Henry Ford
I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
~ Jeremy Northam
If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish.
~ Joel Brown
Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
~ Barnabas
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
~ Bill Hybels
If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life—yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear—then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.
~ Susan Jeffers
Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
~ Susan L. Taylor
Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
~ Tom Rachman
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Never live life in fear of death
~ Zayn Malik
I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
~ Kelly Clarkson
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
~ Kirsten Dunst
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
~ Andre Maurois
Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.
~ Barack Obama
She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.
~ Groucho Marx
...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?
~ J. K. Rowling
So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
~ James Clavell
The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.
~ Jamie McGuire
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
~ Tryon Edwards
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
~ W. Somerset Maugham