1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Anthony Horowitz

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.
Graham Swift

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Andrew Stanton

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
Vincent D'Onofrio

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.
Sugar Ray Leonard

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
John Charles Polanyi

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Edvard Munch

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
Amy Tan

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
Arabella Weir

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
Matt Damon

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman Ralph Augustine

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
Geraldine Brooks

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
Elisha Cuthbert

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
Garrett Hedlund

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Cathy Freeman

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.
Ehud Olmert

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
Edward Albert

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
Rosie O'Donnell

Do what you fear most and you control fear.
Tom Hopkins

I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.
Matthew Fox