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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
Dave Barry on fear

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann on fear

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka on fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee on fear

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis on fear

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Fred Allen on fear

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Publilius Syrus on fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes on fear

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza on fear

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Luc de Clapiers on fear

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 on fear

I have a fear of being boring.
Christian Bale on fear

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
Britney Spears on fear

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 on fear

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 on fear

Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Joseph Schwartz on fear

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Phil Crosby on fear

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel on fear

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco on fear

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Fernando Flores on fear