Fear Quotes

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

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

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Fear controls you.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

The American people fear there is some gouging going on.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.