Fear Quotes

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.