FEAR QUOTES VI

quotations about fear

The boundaries between fear and other emotions are not clear-cut. How does fear differ from dread, consternation or surprise? Anger, disgust, hatred and horror all contain elements of fear. Jealousy may be understood as fear of losing one's partner; guilt may be fear of God's punishment; shame may be fear of humiliation. I history of fear would be rendered meaningless if all negative emotional states were classified as 'really' being fear states.

JOANNA BOURKE

Fear: A Cultural History


The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.

WALTER MOSLEY

Fear Itself


Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures


I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless--possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!

JAN FRAZIER

When Fear Falls Away


Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

MICK FARREN

Darklost


Fear hath a numerous progeny.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish.

DAVID MAMET

Edmond


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

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

JOHN STEINBECK

Travels with Charley: In Search of America


If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930


Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

GEORGES BERNANOS

A Diary of My Times

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To him who is in fear everything rustles.

SOPHOCLES

Acrisius [fragment]


Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Graveyard Book


Fear is a fantastic marketing tool.

DANIEL GARDNER

The Science of Fear


Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Fear is the brother of hate.

LARRY NIVEN

Ringworld


Fear is the enemy of logic.

FRANK SINATRA

quoted in The Way You Wear Your Hat


Fear is prophetical of evil.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"The Moonlit Road"