Fear Quotes
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Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.
Max Brooks
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Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.
William Butler Yeats
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No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.
Epictetus
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He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Publilius Syrus
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If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same
Erykah Badu
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If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.
Marcus Luttrell
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People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
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I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
Judy Collins
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
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Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.
Betty Ford
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
Miguel de Cervantes
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My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.
Anne Hathaway
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
William S. Burroughs
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The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.
Malachy McCourt
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When ya gotta go Now we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder God. We are here to go.
Brion Gysin
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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
Ben Affleck
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While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
Christine Comaford
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People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often say they did it for themselves. In one case, a hero said that the cost of not doing it is so great, the sense of shame, when he knew that he was strong enough, that the fear of not doing anything was more frightening than the fear of dying.
Amanda Ripley
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As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.
Arlene Blum
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I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.
Philippe Petit
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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot