Fear Quote by P.D. James

“For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.”

— Len Deighton

“Their eyes said that... they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He was afraid a lot, but it had become a discerning fear.”

— Mark Bowden

“Fear was a wicked monster clinging to every insecurity, whispering the harshest things. And salvation could also be dirty.”

— V. Theia

“Maybe there was a very good reason for the primal terror that lies in every human heart, a forgotten understanding that there are some…

— Eyre Price

“Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.”

— Melissa McPhail

“though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I”

— John Buchan

“Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?”

— Beth Revis

“Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should…

— Ellyn Spragins

“She realised now what courage actually was.  It wasn’t about not being afraid, no—it was more about feeling that fear and doing it anyway. ”

— Harmony Kent

“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.”

— Veronica Roth