Fear Quotes

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

~ Kay Redfield Jamison

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

~ Rebecca Wells

We fear what we most desire.

~ Harley King

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

~ Garth Nix

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

~ Aesop

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

~ Ernest Hemingway

We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do terrifies us most. Remember this.

~ Jessica Shirvington

But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.

~ Andrew Clements

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.

~ Whitney Otto

Students of public speaking continually ask, How can I overcomeself-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before anaudience?Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that somehorses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at thethundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing afarmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse asthe train goes by?How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze him in aback-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines orautomobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently seethe machines?Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness andfear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attainfreedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may giveyou excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in thewater, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangleand be half scared to death. There are a great many wetlessbathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swimin them. To plunge is the only way.

~ Dale Carnegie

Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge.“Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling.

~ Victoria Schwab

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

~ Tonya Hurley

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

~ David Wroblewski

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

~ Craig Ferguson

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

~ John Ajvide Lindqvist

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Early sign of getting lost is fear.

~ Toba Beta

Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.

~ Kelli Wilson

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

~ Garth Nix

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

~ Jay Mcinerney

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Fear can be a potent aphrodisiac.

~ Kele Moon

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

~ Veronica Roth

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

~ Wynonna Judd

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done.-Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

~ Patricia A. Mckillip

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

~ Steve Goodier

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

~ Marianne Williamson

I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.

~ Tammara Webber

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

~ Bernard Of Clairvaux

We can’t be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

~ Mark Lawrence

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

~ Dorothy Bernard

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

~ Jodi Picoult

I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?I don’t know.And I don’t know how to make it stop.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

~ Brom

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

~ Katherine Paterson