Quotes About Fear

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

We live in a very gynophobic society

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

The U.S. has dominated and continues to dominate the society and thus products and brands activating fear - and subsequently removing fear are selling substantially better than in other countries.

Fear trumps empathy.

These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.