Fear Quotes

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

~ James Comey

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

~ Robbie Coltrane

I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.

~ John Wesley

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

~ William Lyon Phelps

If you can't relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you're too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.

~ Travis Bradberry

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

~ Elinor Wylie

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival.

~ Robert M. Parker

Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.

~ Moran Atias

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

~ Richard Schickel

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

~ David Horsey

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.

~ Laura Wasser

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

~ P. J. O'rourke

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

~ Alanis Morissette

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

~ Elizabeth Warren

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

~ Paul Ryan

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

~ Nancy Gibbs

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

~ Helen Fisher

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

~ Ron Fournier

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.

~ Tim O'brien

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

~ Henri Nouwen

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

~ Jacqueline Bisset

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.

~ Mary Gaitskill

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive.

~ Nhat Hanh

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

~ Gary Zukav

Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.

~ Pamela Meyer

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

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.

~ Rowan Williams

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

~ Lobsang Tenzin

Fear usually looks like anger.

~ Krista Tippett

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

~ Lucy Alibar

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

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

~ Robert Lacey

There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

~ Matthew Stover

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

~ Tara Brach

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

~ Phil Crosby

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

~ James A. Michener

What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.

~ S. C. Gwynne