Fear Quotes

Fear is like an illusion of a dangerous wall between you and your goal.

~ Miao Potirutch

Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.

~ Jonathan Glover

Everything started to move in slow motion. A vehicle was coming up the hill in the opposite direction, facing us but in its own lane. With vehicles parked on both sides of the road, this meant that there was just a narrow passage area for both vehicles to pass through. However, he had yet to reduce his speed, and now I knew which car he was going to hit. I was frozen stiff with fear in the front passenger seat, as I helplessly watched him slam into the back of a parked car. I was not wearing a seat belt, so upon impact my head crashed into the windshield. I was then slammed back into my seat, but with such force that everything went black.

~ Drexel Deal

You face an audience and prepare to speak. Fear will be there, if you're alive. There is, of course, no shortage of feeling up there. It is an extreme act, unusual, testing you in unparalleled ways. It speaks to the core of who you are, and why you do what you do. These challenges, they exist in life and become acute on stage.

~ Richard Maxwell

And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Destroy thefear in youbefore thefear destroysthe lifebefore you.

~ Robert M. Drake

Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.

~ Andrew Mcmillan

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do.

~ Fredrik Backman

I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

He screams like a girl if he has to watch a horror movie. CalebHey! NickWell, you do. I Tried to watch Child's Play and you ran off to hide during the opening credits. And then he had to go sleep with his mom in her bed for three days because he was so scared. CalebDude! You promised me you weren't going to tell anyone about that. Nick

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Disappointment gives you Fear.Credence gives you Strength.

~ Mohith Agadi

And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.

~ Vivek Pereira

Was it possible that the emotion of love had somehow made me more susceptible to fear? Does the noble emotion of love make us start valuing our own lives and the lives of our loved ones more so that the feeling of fear creeps into our mindset?

~ Vivek Pereira

And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe that. Revenge would let her think about her parents without a cold knot forming in her stomach. She would be able to dream without seeing their drowned faces and hearing their voices cry out for her help.

~ Cassandra Clare

Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go away, and to do that, you must acknowledge that it exists.

~ Azar Nafisi

There was no wind which could have swept my thoughts away from my bositerous heart; not that day, not this day and not any other day

~ Pushpa Rana

What you seem to forget is that I'm not one of the embodiments of evil. I'm one of the embodiments of fear. That means I know what makes evil quake in the light of the sun.

~ Emily Kirby

not all feeling of butterflies in the tummy means love, it might sometimes mean lust, fear, hunger e.t.c

~ Jesustibab

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

~ Ayn Rand

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

~ Lauren Groff

Fear in the absence of certainty can inspire men to do unimaginable things.

~ James Morris Robinson

Be fearless. Be bold. Be Magic.

~ Eric Smith

People were always ready to yield theirwills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chancefor developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the greatnineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky

~ Ernest Becker

The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.

~ J.d. Lakey

She got a sense that their time together was valuable, as though she needed to hold on to every minute as if it were their last. He was too good to be true, every moment spent with him magical, so much so that she presumed this couldn’t last forever. None of her good feelings had lasted forever, none of the people who lightened her life managed to stay. Going by her previous luck, from pure fear of not wanting to lose something so special, she was just waiting for the day he would leave. Whoever he was, he was healing her, he was teaching her to smile, teaching her to laugh, and she wondered what she could teach him.

~ Cecelia Ahern

To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.

~ Criss Jami

On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth.

~ Criss Jami

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

~ Ruta Sepetys

I stood in bars, clothed but naked, looking from their eyes to my feet and back again. Still there was the longing to contend with: the heavy, bloody, chemical urge to consume another body and spit out its bones in a new child. How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could so easily destroy you?

~ Nadifa Mohamed

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

~ James S.a. Corey

Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I watched the sky as it turned from silver to grey to the colour of rain. Even the clouds tried to look the other way.

~ Markus Zusak

In the beginning of a movie, they don't tell you what's going to happen. You just have to wait and go on the adventure with them

~ Katie Douglas

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

~ Marjane Satrapi

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.

~ Seth Godin

The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear’s name. Fear doesn’t have a name; it’s just the steady beat underneath a smile.)

~ Luisa Valenzuela

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. In the Creation of Ea, which is the oldest song, it is said, 'Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin