Fear Quotes

It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

~ Stephen King

You can hide from others, but you can't hide from yourself.

~ Maite

He stood in a room, looking around, seeing thousands of himself. He banged the walls made of mirrors, but they wouldn't break. Thier laugh filled his heart and with fear, he curled up and sat there. And then She came out of nowhere and wrapped her arm around him. She held his hand, together they got up and walked towards a wall. He raised his head and looked at the reflections, but all he saw there was only him. She turned and smiled at him and touched the wall. It cracked and shattered into pieces. She inside him broke all the walls around him. He was free, he was not held and haunted by his reflections anymore.

~ Akshay Vasu

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

~ George Washington Carver

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

~ Susan Jeffers

I'm sitting in front of the TV, watching Jerry Springer, and it makes me think of how many mad people there are in the world, and whether everyone is mad deep down, they just pretend they're not, and it's the people in asylums or on Jerry Springer who are the honest ones. I have a notebook and a chewed-up pen, and I'm trying to think of a topic for the Youth Issues speech. Mrs Thomas says she thinks I have a lot to say, but I don't. Nothing I can put words to anyway. I could talk about bullying, or alcoholism, but I don't think I could speak about that out loud, it's too real, and it'd be like I was standing up there naked. More than naked. It would be like my skin was all peeled off and I was just standing there with my heart all bloody and thumping in my rib cage for everyone to see.

~ Megan Jacobson

You may be surprised and encouraged to learn that while inability to deal with fear may look and feel like a psychological problem, in most cases it isn’t. I believe it is primarily an educational problem, and that by reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.

~ Susan Jeffers

The older you grow, the younger your fears grow!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No such thing as the right time, situation or place. You have all it takes. Just dig within. Exhume all the greatness inside of you and transform the world with an inexhaustible drive and without fear of limitations.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

~ James Rozoff

I have too much doubt. It’s the bastard child of fear. I hate fear. So doubt sidles up next to determination in my heart. It doesn’t outweigh it. They coexist.

~ Kim Holden

So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Fear feeds the imagination.

~ Joubert

For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.

~ Jermaine Watkins

I think I’ll give the Cage of Death a miss too,” I said. Crocodiles were fascinating creatures, like living dinosaurs, but they could do their living over there somewhere, far away from me.

~ Renee Conoulty

So many people are afraid of the ending of their life on earth. Then there are others who are afraid of not being able to leave after their bodies have long failed them. There's nothing at all to be afraid of. Death is the last lesson in the school of life. It is the final stage of growth. Death is the one event that is designed to remove all of your remaining fears. Someday you will find that the things you were most afraid of, like death, were only illusions.

~ Kate Mcgahan

There’s a big difference between the head and the heart. Fear lives in the head. Love lives in the heart. The head thinks it knows it all but the heart is always right.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Love is the most powerful force on earth. The end of fear is where love begins. Then nothing can overcome you.

~ Kate Mcgahan

If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

~ Brunonia Barry

Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The panic crawled throughout his limbs like a million tiny newborn spiders.

~ Calvin Demmer

In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear – sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.

~ Franz Kafka

You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power.

~ Stephen King

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

~ Kōbō Abe

When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.

~ Seneca

The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

~ Samuel Beckett

She said, “Only the weak are afraid to appear so.

~ Andrew Kaufman

The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right.

~ Paulo Coelho

The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

~ José Saramago

When I don’t take action in spite of doubt and fear, I lose 100%.

~ Dhaval Gajera

You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for their mothers while you twisted a blade in their guts and snarled your scorn into their ears. You will not confess that you wake in the night, covered in sweat, heart hammering, shrinking from the memories. You will not talk of that, because that is the horror, and the horror is held in the heart’s hoard, a secret, and to admit it is to admit fear, and we are warriors.We do not fear. We strut. We go to battle like heroes. We stink of shit.

~ Bernard Cornwell

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

~ Ann Voskamp

Modesty is fear.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.

~ Wole Soyinka

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

~ Brené Brown