Fear Quotes

44. As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

^{Dave Barry}

45. Fear makes us feel our humanity.

^{Benjamin Disraeli}

46. Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.

^{Umberto Eco}

47. You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

^{Hermann Hesse}

48. It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

^{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

49. I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

^{Lyndon B. Johnson}

50. Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

^{Brendan Behan}

51. The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

^{Thomas Carlyle}

52. I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

^Virgil

53. No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

^{Olive Schreiner}

54. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

^{Horace Mann}

55. He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

^{William Hazlitt}

56. Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

^{Miguel de Cervantes}

57. We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

^Persius

58. To him who is in fear everything rustles.

^Sophocles

59. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

^{Cyril Connolly}

60. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

^Plato

61. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

^{Samuel Butler}

62. I have a fear of being boring.

^{Christian Bale}

63. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

^{John Cheever}

64. The mark of fear is not easily removed.

^{Ernest Gaines}

65. There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

^{Luc de Clapiers}

66. It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

^{Georges Bernanos}

67. Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

^Ovid

68. Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

^{Sandra Bullock}

69. The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

^{Josh Billings}

70. Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

^{Francis Quarles}

71. If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

^{Katharine Butler Hathaway}

72. This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won’t get it back later.

^{Laura Schlessinger}

73. Do what you fear and fear disappears.

^{David Joseph Schwartz}

74. Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

^{Fred Allen}

75. Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

^{John Dryden}

76. An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

^{Jean Anouilh}

77. One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

^{Rainer Maria Rilke}

78. A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

^{John F. Kennedy}

79. The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.

^{Eric Hoffer}

80. A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

^{Lucius Annaeus Seneca}

81. There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

^{Fyodor Dostoevsky}

82. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

^{Marianne Williamson}

83. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

^{Francis Bacon}

84. I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well ^{never have lived.}

^{Harold Kushner}

85. We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

^{Mignon McLaughlin}

86. We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

^{Charles Caleb Colton}

87. Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

^{Marilyn Monroe}

88. I’m different, and my manner invites questions. I’m never afraid to answer.

^{Marlee Matlin}

89. You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

^{Sharon Stone}

90. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

^Chanakya

91. I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

^{Taylor Swift}

92. We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

^{Emil Cioran}

93. There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

^{Michel de Montaigne}