Quotes About Fear

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote 'Can I kiss you?' on a Post-It and handed it to her. And it worked!

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.