Fear Quotes

11978 Fear quotes by 5316 unique authors

Why fear death? Be scared of living. — Laura Marling
A lot of people do things out of fear. A lot of people make choices [based on thinking] they won’t have a career in five… — Katy Perry
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts. — Chinua Achebe
In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things. — Rohinton Mistry
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great… — Abraham Maslow
To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to… — Erich Fromm
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would… — B.F. Skinner
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing… — William James
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind… — Joan Didion
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify… — Herbert Marcuse
There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence… — Hannah Arendt
There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. — Gilles Deleuze
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness… — Marquis de Sade
I refuse to live my life in fear... — Fela Kuti
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear. — Jean de La Fontaine
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...… — Ronald Reagan
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. — Mark Rothko
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear. — Blaise Pascal
As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going… — Wesley Clark
Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A… — Wesley Clark
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. — George Eliot
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. — Theodore Sturgeon
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told… — Yuri Gagarin

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