quotations about fear
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.
STEFAN ZWEIG
The Post Office Girl
I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
True at First Light
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?
DAVID RICHO
When Love Meets Fear
Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
BIBLE
Ecclesiastes 12:13
There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Fear the man who's feared of you.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Fear is a quicksand that slows and grips and strangles, leaving its victims unable to act, too timid to do what life requires.
BOB LONSBERRY
A Various Language
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S. ELIOT
The Waste Land
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.
MICHAEL CRICHTON
State of Fear
Fear invites aggression--do not show it to a predator.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
DANIEL DEFOE
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
We build castles with our fears and sleep in them like kings and queens.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Remington Typewriter Poetry
Fear is the enemy of logic.
FRANK SINATRA
quoted in The Way You Wear Your Hat