Fear Quotes

Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

~ Charlotte Beers

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

~ Nick Hornby

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

~ Julien Smith

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

~ Robertson Davies

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME~ Old Wrinkly

~ Cressida Cowell

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

~ Melina Marchetta

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.

~ William J. Federer

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

~ Michael Crichton

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

~ Gail Carson Levine

But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people.

~ James Lee Burke

Success or failure inbusiness is caused more by mental attitude even than by mentalcapacity. Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confidentattitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is—toacquire it.

~ Walter Dill Scott

That's the kind of thing people always thinking. They always got to see some sort of scary thing in everything.

~ S.d. Crockett

He pulled the gun from his waist, running it along my cheek and back down to my lips. I blinked back the tears at sick game. He finally stopped the gun at my temple, my pulse fighting against the pressure of the cold metal of the gun.“Do you think you are a good person, Kendall?”“No, not at all,” I said, swallowing down the misery of my honest answer.“Really?” he asked, one eyebrow lifting in confusion. “Are you afraid to die?”I wished I could spit in his face for making everything so hard. I wished he would just pull the trigger and end it already. But a small part of me was begging and pleading internally that he wouldn’t shoot me.“No, I’m not afraid to die,” I admitted, I closed my eyes and the tears fell quickly. “I’m not afraid of much in life. I’ve seen too much to be scared.”He let out a sigh. I opened my eyes. He pulled the gun away from me.“Well, damn. How the hell am I supposed to kill someone so miserable?”I looked away. Even in death I was pitiful.

~ Holly Hood

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

~ Sebastian Faulks

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

~ Tahir Shah

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

~ William Manchester

I could smell something. Fear.I could taste it now.It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ...

~ Markus Zusak

It was any outcast's nightmare.If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

~ Nancy Werlin

There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white puffs. Jets of flamethrowers flickered and here and there new explosions stirred up the rubble. While I watched, an American observation plane droned over the Japanese lines, spotting targets for the U.S. warships lying offshore. Suddenly the little plane was hit by flak and disintegrated. The carnage below continued without pause.Here I was safe, but tomorrow I would be there. In that instant I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

~ William Manchester

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

~ Howard Zinn

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

~ David Gemmell

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.

~ Corey Aaron Burkes

When you buy into any version of fear, it can become your experience because your molecules are intelligent and your energy responds to the predominant feeling in your being. The focus of your mind is exactly what gives the orders to create what you experience.

~ Barbara Marciniak

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

~ Stanisław Lem

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

~ William Shakespeare

I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand on endLike quills upon the fretful porpentine.But this eternal blazon must not beTo ears of flesh and blood.List, list, O list!

~ William Shakespeare

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Fear is the brother of hate.

~ Larry Niven

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

~ Tahir Shah

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

~ David Gemmell

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

~ John Vaillant

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

~ Steven Kotler

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

~ E. Stanley Jones

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

~ Dale Carnegie

Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat pee, no doubt from the adrenalin. However hard you wash, it won't come off. It smothers you, as your muscles become frozen with acid and your mind paralysed by despair.

~ Tahir Shah

fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.

~ Titus Lucretius Carus

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

~ Raymond Lindquist

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky