Fear Quotes
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Freya Stark
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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.
Boris Sidis
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Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
John Ralston Saul
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
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Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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We're not going to stop trying to live big. It's about transforming your stress so that it doesn't take over. The first step is to realize that it is there and that you are trying to outrun your fear.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.
Napoleon Hill
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Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.
Jane McGonigal
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
Peter Lewis Allen
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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
Brit Hume
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I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.
Mariella Frostrup
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In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.
David Shields
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
William Faulkner
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There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror.
Geoff Thompson
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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
John Cheever
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The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.
Geoff Johns
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You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
Lydia Millet
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There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'
Anne Beatts
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My greatest fear is speaking in public.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Anwar Sadat
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.
Mary C. Jones
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Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
Napoleon Hill
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True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
Anthony Albanese