Fear Quotes

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

~ Gerald G. Jampolsky

Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

~ Sarah Dessen

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Bertrand Russell

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.

~ Bram Stoker

and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are still afraidSo it is better to speakrememberingwe were never meant to survive

~ Audre Lorde

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

~ Julian Barnes

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

~ Michelle Obama

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

~ Donald Miller

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.

~ Franz Kafka

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

~ Brom

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

~ Audre Lorde

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

~ Paulo Coelho

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

~ Plato

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

~ Ray Bradbury

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.

~ Pittacus Lore

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.

~ Will Smith

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

~ Tana French

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.

~ Tamora Pierce

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

~ Melissa Marr

But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.

~ Colleen Hoover

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

~ Samuel Johnson

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

~ Sara Zarr

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

~ Paulo Coelho

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

~ Deepak Chopra

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

~ Veronica Rossi

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

~ Criss Jami

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

~ George R.r. Martin

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

~ C.s. Lewis

Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.

~ Cassandra Clare

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

~ Sharon Creech

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

~ Bertrand Russell

There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

~ Barbara Kingsolver