Fear Quotes
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We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.
Elizabeth Esty
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To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
Donatella Versace
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The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.
Bryce Dessner The National
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I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.
Katharine Hepburn
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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.
Philip K. Dick
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I've tried to write in a way that transcends beyond just sexuality and is more about letting go of our fear and trusting the people around us.
Anzia Yezierska
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It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.
Yasuhiko Kimura
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I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
Bram Stoker
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I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.
Barb Honchak
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'How does one conquer fear, Don B.?' 'One takes a frog and sews it to one’s shoe,' he said. 'The left or the right?' Don B. gave me a pitying look. 'Well, you’d look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn’t you?' he said. 'One frog on each shoe.'
Donald Barthelme
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard Feynman
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When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
Maynard Webb
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In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
Andrew Mason
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Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
Napoleon Hill
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The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.
Jim Crace
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I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
John B. S. Haldane
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Love is random; fear is inevitable.
Orson Scott Card
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That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear - because I didn't want anyone to change it.
Aubrie Sellers
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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
Ben Carson
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Fear appears from a false vision of reality.
Bokar Rinpoche
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
Jeanette Winterson
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra
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When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead