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Quotes About Fear

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.
~ Rod Serling
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
~ Seneca the Younger
One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.
~ Steve Harvey
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
~ John Frusciante
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
~ Aristotle
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
~ Benny Hill
I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.
~ Brenda Lee
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
~ Cynthia Weil
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.
~ David Benioff
Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.
~ David Wong
I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.
~ Rita Rudner
I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
~ Lee Ryan
Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
~ Leon Askin
I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.
~ Lilly Singh
My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.
~ Mark Burnett
The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.
~ Mark Mobius
We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.
~ Richard Patrick
You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.
~ Edward Snowden
We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.
~ Isaac Asimov