Fear Quotes
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This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
Adam Gollner
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
Anne Carson
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
Victor Hugo
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Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?
Angel Kyodo Williams
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We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Know what your characters want, know what they need most, know what they fear most, and don't be fearful of facing it, no matter how unpleasant it may be.
Mark Waid
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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.
Mila Kunis
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
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I understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists.
Abi Morgan
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
Seth Godin
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People don’t like the reflection of what I am to them. I may be different, all stone and dust instead of skin and blood. But they still see themselves. Copied. Faked in stone. They see their Architect’s work in something that isn’t flesh, and they can’t help but be offended by it, scared by it. Fear breeds hate.
Ben Galley
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I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.
Julie Kagawa
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I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose.
Nicole Kidman
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Publilius Syrus
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Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
Eric Jerome Dickey
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Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
Elisha Cuthbert
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The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.
John Berger
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Fear and aversion, in some perverse way, can be transformed into pleasure.
Bessel van der Kolk
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There is always a sense of fear in everything I do. It doesn’t look like I am afraid, but I am always pushing myself. It is really difficult for me to be up here.” I reflected, “A witness can see how uncomfortable you feel pushing yourself to be here,” and she nodded.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
John Tillotson
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By ignoring my fear, I learned that the fear was groundless. Over the years, I have met people who took what seemed the safer path and were the lesser for it...I had taken a risk, and that risk yielded that greatest reward...Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.
Edwin Catmull
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Tim Ferriss
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
Seneca the Younger
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury