Exlpore more Fear quotes

"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Fear, Hearing

"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

Anais Nin, American Author

Fear, Darkness, Witches, Christianity

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Fear,

"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

Stephen King, American Author

Fear, Power, Wisdom, Happiness, Truth

"Fear attracts attack."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

Fear,

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Fear, Belief, Night, Darkness, Superstition

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Fear, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Regret

"We are too scared to be real!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Fear, Authenticity, Truth, Courage

"Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win."

Stephen King, American Author

Fear, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom

"Fear is a society induced state of confusion."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Fear, Confusion, Society, Mind

Explore more quotes by Grace Paley

"I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses."

Civilization

"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else."

Nothing

"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life."

Business

"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."

Perception

"I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander."

Mind

"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads."

Creativity

"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."

World

"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."

Life

"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."

Fear