Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Fear.
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
Ron Chernow
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Donald Downes
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Francis Bacon
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
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
Morihei Ueshiba
Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.
Eli Stanley Jones
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul Sartre
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
Nicholas Hoult
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
Nicolaus Copernicus
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener
You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.
Beth Ditto
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
Jane Austen
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
Hans Blix
