Fear Quotes
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The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
Lou Henry Hoover
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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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I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
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Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.
Hayley Kiyoko
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I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
Courtney Love
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The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
G. Edward Griffin
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
Emil Cioran
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We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.
Louise Mensch
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If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
Madame de Stael
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Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.
Chris Priestley
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Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.
Allison Brennan
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran
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Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.
R. A. Torrey
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I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.
Alex Honnold
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In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.
Alexander Lowen
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...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
William Stafford
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Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
Lisa Madigan
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and more daunting. And I think that's also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at it.
Ari Graynor
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They terrify lest they should fear.
Tacitus
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You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
Lydia Millet
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Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
Seth Godin
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For some reason, some kids have a fear of food. Some adults do, too. The best cure for that is to try a lot of different kinds of things. The more you try, the more experiences you have.
Mark Kurlansky
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Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.
Bill Foster