Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. Gary Busey
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. Andrew Cohen
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. Alfred Hitchcock
Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Miguel Angel Ruiz
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Jean de la Bruyere
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. Henry Louis Gates
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice. Drew Barrymore
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. Doug Coupland
I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear. Michelle Obama
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. Julia Ward Howe
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. Adele
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. David Icke
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it. Christian Nestell Bovee
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. Erica Jong
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it. Homer
A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. Kathie Lee Gifford