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Fear Quotes


"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."


"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway."


"She screamed like an assassin was driving a knife into her stomach.She screamed like a thousand birds were pecking at her flesh.She screamed like the palace was burning down around her."


"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"


"Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished."


"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."


"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."


"I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years."


"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."


"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."



"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."


"To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God."


"I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills."


"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."



"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."


"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that."


"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."



"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."


"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."


"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."


"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."


"What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none."


"My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer."


"But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear."



"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."


"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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