Quotessence
Home / Topics / Fear Quotes

Fear Quotes

Browse 8822 quotes about Fear.

Related topics

MenIfsAtheismRageInspirationalPeopleThinkingKnowsWorldMindWayLifeCourageOvercoming FearFeelsMayHeartSuccessMotivationalGivingNo FearWantHumansNeedsShouldBelieveHappinessDreadSelfDoubtFacesLovePersonsReasonWorryAnxietyLooksDangerFailureFeelingsDoeMadeMeanSometimesWarActionFear NotInspiringRunningAweDiesFearlessHas BeensMotivationRealTryingEndsEvilKindReligionScaredStillsFrightenedChildrenDeathFirstsHateLittlesLongPerseveranceDesireMightWorstDyingSoulLightDreamHappensSeemsEyeFear Of FailureMomentsOvercomingTwoDarkDoneEmotionPainWellsWholeFearfulHopeMovingPastCausesEnoughI CanIdeasTerrorTurnsmore

Fear Quotes

“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”

MaySelfFactsLostFearBitsEmotionalPrideEqualLosingWeaknessEmptyOppositesIndependenceDesertSelfishnessMaskCowardFearfulIntimidatedWithout LoveCowardlyTentsPersonificationBarricadesPolar OppositesAfraid To LoveLove Strength
Book:Killosophy
Create image

“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.”

PeopleKnowsMenWantShouldMindWellsMayIdeasMightFearExistenceHellAtheismConsciousConcernedScientistUniversalRageBurningGood GodConscious Mind
Author:Luther Burbank
Create image

“Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.”

PeopleMayMomentsUseFearLosesComfortTenEndureEnjoymentContradictionMisfortunesManifestLive In The MomentWretchedGood SenseLamentSupposition
Author:Eliza Haywood
Create image

“For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!”

PeopleFirstsMayTodayEarthCausesFearPowerfulEnemyInformationPureWeaponsFirst TimeGardenArmyWorkersConfusionSecureCelebrateIdeologyGloriousResolveConfusingContradictoryPurificationUnificationPests
Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
Create image

“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”

MenMayImportantCountryMomentsStoriesGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsFearCitiesStruggleOfficeMen And WomenSurfaceSuspectsDelightfulClerksUnderpaid
Book:My Story
Create image

“IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.”

IfsHeartMayCountryChristianReligionFearMoralDutyGoes OnHighestFortuneConvictionBeing TrueOur CountrySentimentsCommandmentsPosterityProspering
Book:Daniel Webster: The Completest Man
Create image

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”

MenGivingTryingYearsHumansMayHas BeensMadeTwoShowsHomeFallThreeFearNumbersFiveFourAtheismSixOppositesGive MePrejudiceFalling In LoveSevenSaintRageGet BackWarfareCharmingShow MeSeven YearsAlways TryingPyramidsBack HomeHuman SocietyOutcastGod Image
Book:The Stand
Create image

“Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.”

MenMindBelieveLooksMayRealEyeFearAcceptingWatchesFateDangerNormalApproachMessagesHappeningsConcernWaveRefuseHis EyesDoomSpectacularSpinningApprehensionFrightParalyzedResignedDescendingTornadoesAvalanchesTidal Waves
Author:Arthur C. Clarke
Create image

“If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-”

IfsKnowsLooksMayDoneFacesTurnsNamesFearUnderstandingAnswersBehindsYour FaceHave FaithBehind YouHave CourageFaith In Yourself
Book:Riddle of Stars
Create image

“Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.”

IfsKnowsWritingWellsMaySometimesHappensAbleMovingNightFearTeachKnow HowMinutesDown AndWineDustWorriedBottlesFifteenTypewritersWriter's BlockUpstairs
Author:Charles Bukowski
Create image

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.”

IfsLifeMayLittlesMotivationalActionSuccessLife IsFearFailingFailureExperimentsWhat IfDirtCoatsTornFollow Your DreamsBeing AfraidCoarseGreat RiskAdventure And LifeRisk And FailureRisks In LifeRisking Your LifeAdventure And Risk
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Create image

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

IfsHeartMayDreamSufferingFearSleepFailingHorrorNervesWakingHereafter
Book:Classic Horror Collection: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Jekyll and Hyde, & The Island of Dr. Moreau
Create image

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

MayFactsLightLyingHateEvilFearPeaceCan DoDarknessViolenceKingsWeaknessHatredUltimateIncreaseMurderLiarsNon ViolenceOnly LoveSpiralsDescendingViolence And PeaceKings And LoveLove Not Hate
Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
Create image

“There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I do, and what I am to this place.I know what I am to you, and how much you depend on me.You may be the symbol, and you may be the one everyone turns to when something goes bad, and you're the big badass, but I'm the guy doing the day-in, day-out work of running things. So I don't make this about me.”

KnowsMayBigsRunningGuyTurnsFearDependsWho I AmSymbolsBadass
Author:Michael Grant
Create image

“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”

MayReasonAbleChristianLyingFearFictionAtheismProveAncientAtheistRageSatanRegionsNo ReasonEgyptHypothesisThere Is No GodAncient EgyptBabylonOlympusChristian God
Book:The Quotable Bertrand Russell
Create image