Fear Quotes

Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.

~ Steve Chandler

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

~ Michael Grant

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

~ Stephen Richards

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will...And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger, fear or revenge. Do not fear, what is yours to use. Only beware the ends to which it is turned, and know the means will truly determine the outcome.

~ Derek Donais

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

~ Derrick A. Bell

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Did I never explain to you about love, Reva?' Pa asked. I gave him a look, and he laughed uncomfortably. 'I guess not. Let me put it in a way you'll understand. Love is like stinging nettles. Only they prick from the inside out, starting at your heart and bursting on around. It's worse when it gets here'--he rubbed the bridge of his nose--'then your vision goes a little strange. But eventually the nettles stop stinging--once she agrees to kiss you. But they start right back up again when she agrees to marry you--''Pa,' I interrupted, 'that's not love, that's fear.'Pa shook his head, looking off admiringly in the direction where Lacrimora had disappeared. 'Same thing, in my case.

~ Merrie Haskell

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

~ L.m. Montgomery

When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all.

~ Stephen Richards

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

~ Michael Cunningham

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

~ Lissa Rankin

People who live life in fear of taking risks die without living it.

~ Fola

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave....If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.

~ David Levithan

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

~ Stephen Levine

Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front.

~ William Walker Atkinson

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

~ J.k. Rowling

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

~ H.g. Wells

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

~ David Halberstam

Where your fear is,there is your task.

~ C.g. Jung

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

~ John Scalzi

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

~ Lloyd Jones

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

~ Ray Bradbury

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

~ John Scalzi

Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them.

~ Kathy Kelly

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

~ Keith Ablow

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone.When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none,or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

~ Toba Beta

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

~ Hilary Swank

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

~ Jerry Pournelle

This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions.

~ Olli Jalonen

Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

~ Janet Skeslien Charles

Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.

~ William Nicholls

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

~ Charles Bukowski

Drop the fear. What you fear most, can be a repeated theme in your life.

~ Amit Ray

The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future, then you are finally living life free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

~ Ferdinand Foch

Fear of vikings build castles.

~ Charles Manson

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.

~ W.h. Auden

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.

~ Herta Müller