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Quotes About Fear

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
~ Yancy Butler
How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.
~ William Cowper
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
~ William Hazlitt
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
~ William Hazlitt
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
~ William Hazlitt
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
~ William Hazlitt
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
~ William Shakespeare
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
~ William Shakespeare
I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
~ Agatha Christie
In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.
~ Alanis Morissette
The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
~ Alexandra Bracken
Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
~ Alfred Austin
When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
~ Ali Vincent
Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
I've never been onstage in my life.
~ Anna Friel
You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.
~ Anna Kavan
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
~ Anne McCaffrey
I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.
~ Anne Rice
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
~ Arabella Weir
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
~ Arabella Weir
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
When you're stuck sitting in a comfort zone, small problems become magnified. Get out of your comfort zone, touch the edge, and you come back with an appreciation for life.
~ Barbara Warren
I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.
~ Beatrice Sparks