Fear Quotes

Abundance does not come in packages, it comes from the happiness within.

~ Stephen Richards

Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it.

~ Stephen Richards

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

~ Paulo Coelho

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

~ George R.r. Martin

Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up

~ Veronica Roth

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

~ George R.r. Martin

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

~ J.k. Rowling

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

~ Paulo Coelho

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

~ Jane Austen

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

~ Emma Donoghue

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

~ Jim Morrison

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

~ Paulo Coelho

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

~ Nelson Mandela

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

~ Dan Brown

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

~ C.s. Lewis

Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand — and she hurried on. “I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done.”“You fear for Jem,” Will said.“Yes,” she said. “And I fear for you, too.”“No,” Will said, hoarsely. “Don’t waste that on me, Tess.

~ Cassandra Clare

She had blue skin,And so did he.He kept it hidAnd so did she.They searched for blueTheir whole life through,Then passed right by-And never knew.

~ Shel Silverstein

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

~ Sigmund Freud

The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...

~ Stephen King

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

~ Aristotle

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

~ John Green

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

~ Joseph Campbell

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

~ Frederick Buechner

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

~ George R.r. Martin

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

~ Marie Curie

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In time we hate that which we often fear.

~ William Shakespeare

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

~ Audre Lorde

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

~ Neil Gaiman

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

~ Lauren Oliver

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.

~ John Steinbeck

The man who fears losing has already lost.

~ George R.r. Martin

What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...

~ J.k. Rowling