Fear Quotes

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

~ Andrea Bocelli

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

~ Christian Slater

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

~ Steve Vai

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

~ Sean Harris

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

~ Elizabeth I

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

~ Daria Werbowy

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

~ Don Delillo

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

~ A. S. Byatt

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

~ Saint Basil

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

~ Randi Weingarten

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

~ Jane Goodall

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

~ Thomas Paine

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

~ Malala Yousafzai

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

~ Alphonsus Liguori

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

~ William Gurnall

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

~ Debbie Ford

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

~ Anna Quindlen

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

~ Wangari Maathai

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

~ Mary Roach

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

~ Tupac Shakur

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

~ Tecumseh

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

~ Buddha

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

~ George Macdonald

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

~ Jim Morrison

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

~ Mark Twain

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

~ Eugène Ionesco

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

~ Voltaire

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

~ Albert Einstein

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

~ Francis Bacon

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

~ Jacqueline Cochran

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

~ Tecumseh

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

~ Mattie Stepanek