Fear Quotes

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

~ Philip K. Dick

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

~ Lao Tzu

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

~ Jim Morrison

Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

~ Tupac Shakur

Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise

~ Steve Maraboli

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

~ Spencer Johnson

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

~ Frank Herbert

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Nelson Mandela

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

~ Haruki Murakami

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

~ Criss Jami

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

~ Holly Black

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

~ Criss Jami

The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.

~ Caroline Kettlewell

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

~ André Gide

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

~ James M. Cain

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

~ Deb Caletti

Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

~ George Orwell

Fear can force obedience, but it can never transform a heart.

~ Stacey Jay

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

~ Mark Lawrence

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

~ Veronica Roth

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

~ Kristin Hannah

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

~ C.s. Lewis

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

~ Anthony Robbins

Always remember the acronym for FEAR can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.

~ Cupcake Brown

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

~ Jim Butcher

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

~ Neil Gaiman

I was Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

~ Julie Kagawa

It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

~ Sharon Creech

I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.

~ Steve Goodier

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

~ Carlos Castañeda

Is there anything more frightening than people?

~ Svetlana Alexievich

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

~ C.g. Jung

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.

~ Steve Chandler

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

~ Tamora Pierce

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

~ Anthony Doerr