Fear Quotes

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

~ Libba Bray

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

~ Bertrand Russell

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

~ William Stafford

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

~ Shirley Jackson

Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.

~ Beth Fantaskey

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

~ Umberto Eco

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

~ Jacqueline Carey

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

~ J.k. Rowling

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot

~ Nadia Comaneci

I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.

~ Christopher Pike

It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.

~ Richelle Mead

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked.

~ Cheryl Strayed

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

~ Dean Koontz

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

~ Mel Brooks

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

~ J.k. Rowling

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

~ Robert Liparulo

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.It might to keep it open.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.

~ Ron Hall

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.

~ Alexander Gordon Smith

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

~ John Kennedy Toole

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

~ Terry Pratchett

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you.Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance.Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.To be concerned is to be human.To act is to care.

~ Vashti Quiroz-Vega

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

~ George Packer

Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

~ Jennifer Rardin

In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

~ Marya Hornbacher

I hurt myself,” Syren bit out. “I make myself bleed and it feels good. It eases the pressure inside me, but it never lasts for long.” His lips trembled. “Before I slept in your bed, I’d never had a full night’s sleep. Before I crawled into your arms I’d never been safe.” He shuffled forward. “You give me that. You hold that power and you can take it away.

~ Avril Ashton

Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, an state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are. To what you can understand, live, be, just by being with that presents itself to you in the form of the feelings you have...

~ Geneen Roth

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

~ Epictetus

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

~ Kohta Hirano

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

~ Alice Miller

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The fear of losing each other is always stronger than the pain we cause.

~ Krista Ritchie

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

~ Maria V. Snyder

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

~ Bertrand Russell

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

~ Adam Levin

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

~ Stephen King