Fear Quotes

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

~ Alexander The Great

Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

~ Julie Murphy

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

~ Haruki Murakami

The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.

~ Connie Kerbs

Fear and logic belong together.

~ Dee Williams

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

~ Amy Harmon

Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

~ Jay Woodman

Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.

~ Liz Newman

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she looked again, the monsters would be gone. Would never have been. She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again. The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone.

~ George R.r. Martin

Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

~ Dan Groat

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.

~ Carson Mccullers

Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.

~ Lauren Beukes

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

~ Dean Koontz

To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

~ Sylvia Plath

The fish, whose tail was nipped, separated itself from the group and began to appear sickly, most likely from stress, Coal reasoned. He refused to be this fish, or the belly up fish, or the blue fish gasping for air. Rather, he resolved to be the other fish, the one who found purpose and meaning despite the unnatural environment, despite depending upon keepers for survival.

~ Jesikah Sundin

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the Manifestation of War rises; If a nation is ruled through Love, War would not exist and Harmony would find its way.

~ Nynke Visser

There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn't work? Would that make you absolutely unhappy for the rest of your life? I would hope not.

~ Amy Stolls

I had a dream about you. You was a crocodile and i was always looking for you with fear. Your teeth were alabaster and your skin green as grass. Unfortunate you had already a girlfriend. And i hoped she finish like a handbag. I love you from my all reptile heart, which is poikilothermic.

~ Kattie Belgar

The first time Akash took Supriya to view the pool, I rose up in strident protest, and he was astonished by the way she turned her face away, her eyes filled with terror. “I am petrified of water!” she whispered, as he tried to cajole her to at least put her feet in.

~ Deepti Menon

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

~ Leslea Tash

Fear brings your mind to the edge of insanity, where everything is so frighteningly crystal clear you can take in every little thing that’s happening around you. Your body runs purely on adrenaline, with not a drop of blood pumping through your veins.

~ Michelle Horst

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

~ Dean Koontz

Just a child. All this time we've feared you, sought you. And you're nothing more than a human child.

~ Joshua Winning

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.

~ Daniel Gardner

Fear is a communicable disease, it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent, it combusts with stupidity.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.

~ Robert Tew

...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...

~ John Geddes

Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.

~ Suzette Boon

Eternity. Isn't that word terrifying?

~ Linda Boström Knausgård

Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices of my world telling me that my little life is all I have and advising me to cling to it with all my might. But when I let these voices move to the background of my life and listen to that small soft voice calling me the Beloved, I know that there is nothing to fear and that dying is the greatest act of love, the act that leads me into the eternal embrace of my God whose love is everlasting.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

~ Anthony Liccione

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

~ James Rozoff

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

~ Arthur Miller

Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.

~ Robert Moment

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.

~ George R.r. Martin

Fury invaded where fear dare not. The thirst for revenge still burned his throat and coated his tongue. The last few days, he'd been a complete ass, visiting violence on his brothers because he could, because they would take it, because, in the end, they were the same. Monsters all.

~ Cindy Skaggs