Fear Quotes - Page 5

Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

Miguel de Cervantes

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

William Faulkner

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

Bertrand Russell

Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

John F. Milburn

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Harry A. Overstreet

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death death to energy and all growth.

Horace Fletcher

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Aeschylus

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.

Lloyd C. Douglas

If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Fear is the prison of the heart.

Anonymous

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.

Angela L. Wozniak

He who fears something gives it power over him.

Moorish proverb

All fear is bondage.

Anonymous

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

Cicero

Where fear is happiness is not.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Anne Rice

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

William Wrigley

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.

Dorothy Thompson

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Dorothy Thompson

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.

Arthur Christopher Benson

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

There is no devil but fear.

Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.

Robertson Davies

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

Cardinal de Retz

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Edgar Watson Howe

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

General George S. Patton

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?

In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Alfred Hitchcock

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.

The horse does abominate the camel the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.

Increase Mather

The flocks fear the wolf the crops the storm and the trees the wind.

Virgil

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

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