FEAR QUOTES IV

quotations about fear

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures


Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Angel's Game


I have no remedy for fear; there grows
No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Bothwell


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 the parent of cruelty.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

Short Studies on Great Subjects


The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out ... and do it.

SUSAN J. JEFFERS

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway


Always use the proper names for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


The good news is that fear is typically the province of the old. And hope is the province of the young.

BARACK OBAMA

Newsweek, April 29, 2019


There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides


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


Fear the man who's feared of you.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


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


Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


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 of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

DANIEL DEFOE

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe


Fear invites aggression--do not show it to a predator.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


Fears themselves don't have to change at all. Fear is not the problem. It is our relationship to the fear that determines the choices we make. By changing our relationship to fear, we reduce its credibility, robbing it of its power to stop us.

THOM RUTLEDGE

Embracing Fear


We build castles with our fears and sleep in them like kings and queens.

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry