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Quotes About Fear

As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.
~ Gary Larson
I suffer from bizarre dreams and epic nightmares.
~ Vic Reeves
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.
~ Andrea Bocelli
I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.
~ Sheridan Smith
So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!
~ Derren Brown
I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.
~ Amanda Seyfried
You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
~ Ian Dunbar
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
~ Joyce Meyer
I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
~ Barry Humphries
I suffer from stage fright, so I blabber on stage and stop midway through my performances. I cannot even write a cheque, as it makes me nervous. Being around people makes me nervous. But I'm very comfortable in front of the camera, and this I realised many films later.
~ Dhanush
Many people with mental illness suffer in silence, afraid to seek help for fear of victimisation.
~ Luciana Berger
I suffer from anxiety, nearly every day.
~ Megan McKenna
I suffer from anxiety.
~ Scarlett Moffatt
I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.
~ Brianna Brown
Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.
~ Donny Osmond
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
~ Yochai Benkler
In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.
~ Goldie Hawn
I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.
~ Molly Ivins
Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.
~ Michael Ball
I suffered a lot from social anxiety, and being on set was really scary to me. That fear can cause limits in your art and your performance because you're not going all in because there is this little thing in your head.
~ Keiynan Lonsdale
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
~ Otto Dix
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
~ Plato