Quotes About Fear

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

There are no doctors in my family, and I've joked about this, that my dad got the doctor daughter he always wanted. But I would make a terrible doctor - I hate the sight of blood!

I have a terrible reputation for being nervous.

I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

I could have been known for something terrible.

When expressions of emotion are dangerous, and when you are constantly told that this terrible thing is being done for your own good, you quickly learn to hide your true feelings, even from yourself.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

I don't like the ocean. I'm not a natural swimmer, even though I come from Australia. That' a terrible thing to say.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.