Fear Quotes
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Every single night I'm nervous.
Vivien Leigh
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It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
Gautama Buddha
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Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.
Andrew Barrett
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
Seneca the Younger
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My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
Danzy Senna
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So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.
Jonathan Kozol
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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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Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.
William Faulkner
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Sophocles
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Francis Beaumont
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She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way. My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
Beth Revis
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I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.
James McAvoy
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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
Michael Gambon
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We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
Gerald Hausman
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I grew up thinking that my family was normal. But I always was terrified of my dad. I never felt cared for by him. He never hit me as hard as he did my siblings, but I have a pervasive sense of fear.
Bessel van der Kolk
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If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence. Stop for a moment and imagine what this world would be like without consequence and fear. Imagine what we could, what we would do. I dare not think of such a nightmare for it could only be born in pain.
Eddie Russo
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Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.
Emraan Hashmi
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When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
John Rhys-Davies
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White