Quotes about Fear

“I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.”

“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”

“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”

“To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”

“With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.”

“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

“Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.”

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

“Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.”

“I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.”

“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.”

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”

“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”

“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”

“Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.”

“The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.”

“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.”

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”

“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.”

“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”