Fear Quotes

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

~ Jonathan Maberry

I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.

~ Alwyn Hamilton

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.

~ Mark Lawrence

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

~ Andrew Vachss

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

~ Donald Miller

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

~ Anne Rice

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

~ Tim O'brien

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

~ André Gide

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so.

~ Aberjhani

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

~ Chris Hedges

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

~ Louis De Bernières

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

~ Jean Lorrain

Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: What in God's name are you doing to yourself?

~ John Howard Griffin

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

~ Joyce Meyer

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

~ Héloïse D'argenteuil

Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

~ Neil Gaiman

We are fast moving into something, we are fast flung into something like asteroids cast into space by the death of a planet, we the people of earth are cast into space like burning asteroids and if we wish not to disintegrate into nothingness we must begin to now hold onto only the things that matter while letting go of all that doesn't. For when all of our dust and ice deteriorates into the cosmos we will be left only with ourselves and nothing else. So if you want to be there in the end, today is the day to start holding onto your children, holding onto your loved ones; onto those who share your soul. Harbor and anchor into your heart justice, truth, courage, bravery, belief, a firm vision, a steadfast and sound mind. Be the person of meaningful and valuable thoughts. Don't look to the left, don't look to the right; we simply don't have the time. Never be afraid of fear.

~ C. Joybell C.

Fear is the cancer

~ Simon Holt

At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.

~ Donald L. Hicks

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

~ Peter Høeg

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

~ J.d. Salinger

You don't need to be so fierce and bluffing..if you already know that I can't be intimidated.

~ Toba Beta

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

~ Dean Koontz

I believe that courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear. If you descend by rope from a cliff and are not fearful to some degree, you are either crazy or unaware. Courage is seeing your fear, in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering alternatives and choosing to function in spite of risks.

~ Leonard Zunin

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

~ Herman Melville

I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.

~ Vicki Grove

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

~ Ray Bradbury

The thing I fear most is fear.

~ Michel De Montaigne

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

~ Peter Benchley

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

~ Anne Rice

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

~ Melody Carlson

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

~ Edward Weeks

Beyond the clouds, above people, beneath the skin, inside people, we’re waiting for you. We see you now, as you read. We’ll see you when you stop thinking about these words. Above and inside your face, we know your secrets. We know what you hide from yourself. You can’t escape us. We hold your heart in the palm of our hand. If we like, we can squeeze it. If we like, we can crush it. There’s nothing you can do to stop us. Our gaze notices your every single move and your every single word. Say a word now. Make a move. We smile at your words, as we smile at your silence. No one will be able to protect you. No one can protect you now. You’re even less than you imagine. We’ve seen a thousand generations of men like you. It was our pleasure to let them walk on the lines of our hands. It was our pleasure to take everything away from them. We guided entire generations of men through tunnels we built that led nowhere. And when they arrived at nothing, we smiled. You’re just like them. We’re waiting for you above and inside your face. Continue on your way. Follow that line of our hand. We know where that tunnel you walk through will end. Keep on walking. We see you and smile. Beyond the clouds, we are fear. Beneath the skin, we are fear.

~ José Luís Peixoto

An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart. . . .Harry’s eyes rolled up into his head. He couldn’t see. He was drowning in cold. There was a rushing in his ears as though of water. He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder . . .And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams. He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn’t . . . a thick white fog was swirling around him, inside him —

~ J.k. Rowling

Fear clogged human potential.

~ Toba Beta

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

~ Mary E. Pearson

Everyone is running from something. But if we’re lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents an opportunity to conquer our fears. Only then, if triumphant, can a destiny bestowed become a destiny fulfilled.

~ Rome Sims

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

~ Arthur Wellesley