Top 100 Fear That Quotes
#1. There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
#2. We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
Keith Miller
#3. And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had.
Lili St. Crow
#5. It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#6. It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
Camille Pissarro
#7. You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.
Lauren DeStefano
#8. Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
#9. Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
Bridget Of Sweden
#10. I only know there's something unsettling about a door that closes forever. I feel a vague lament about the changing of my body, the alterations in my appearance, the bleeding out of motherhood, the fear that I will not find the mysterious green fuse again.
Sue Monk Kidd
#11. Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous of discovering easy clues to less consequential questions.
William T. Vollmann
#12. If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.
St. Jerome
#13. Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet
Robert Hunter
#14. It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
Marjane Satrapi
#15. I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
Matthew Arnold
#16. Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.
Carl Sagan
#17. I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.
David Duchovny
#18. The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
Jeff Koons
#19. I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#20. People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.
Eric Holder
#21. God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour;
John Locke
#22. Even if Matt loved me for the rest of his life, and never so much as blinked in the direction of another woman, there'd still be pain in our past. Fear that we might let each other down again.
Aimee L. Salter
#23. I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.
Andrew Luck
#24. I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation.
Carly Fiorina
#25. Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
Robin Marantz Henig
#26. The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#27. It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play - the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life - its facility, its use.
William H Gass
#28. What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
John Searles
#29. You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.
Bernhard Goetz
#30. When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
Vin Diesel
#31. The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.
Brene Brown
#32. I used to fear things like not having enough alcohol and drugs, or the money to get them. Now I fear someone holding me down and physically forcing me to take drugs and drink alcohol. I fear that for some reason I wouldn't be allowed or wouldn't be able to read anymore.
Phil Volatile
#33. Maybe someone who dies at the age of a hundred doesn't feel anything more than the fear that grips us when we're six and it's nighttime and our mother comes in to turn out the light.
Kamel Daoud
#34. You can't avoid caring for someone for fear that one day something bad will happen. You will only die alone and afraid.
Cindy Lyle
#35. She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears
Billie Letts
#36. The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.
Anthony Hopkins
#37. Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.
Elif Shafak
#38. It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#40. Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.
John Sherman
#41. There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules.
Anthony Doerr
#42. My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#43. Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#44. Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.
Dawn Hammill
#45. Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?
Christina Engela
#46. That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
Veronica Roth
#47. Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their bunnies.
Maureen Dowd
#48. I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
R.A. Dickey
#50. What I could relate to was the common fear that you are secretly so uniquely screwed-up that there is no way anyone would like you if they really knew you.
Tim Kreider
#51. We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
Emmanuelle Beart
#52. I couldn't shake the fear that Mason would follow through on a threat he said a year ago: No girl would come between him and his brother. Well. Hello. Here I am.
Tijan
#53. Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.
John Le Carre
#54. There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality.
Kandi Steiner
#55. There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir
#56. I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. The White House is worried about Joe Biden's potential run for president, and a source says they fear that it wouldn't have the right outcome. That's right, they think he might win.
Jimmy Fallon
#58. A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.
Robert Breault
#59. Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#60. It is fear that turns minor difference into major, that makes the gulf between ethnicities into a distinction between species, between human and non-human.
Michael Ignatieff
#61. For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage.
Kelly Blatz
#62. White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way!
Bill Maher
#63. [She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap?
Julianna Baggott
#64. I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.
Elisa Albert
#65. I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A.S. Byatt
#66. I've spent a lifetime practicing, becoming who I must be to survive. Hiding in plain sight, always acting, always playing a part. There are times when I fear that I'll lose me, my true self, in the haze of the facade. But that fear doesn't matter to anyone besides myself.
Sara B. Larson
#67. I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.
Adam Rapp
#68. when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency
Luc Zandvliet
#69. If you stop trying to make yourself more than you are, out of fear that you are less than you are, whoever you really are will be a lot lighter and happier and easier to live with, too.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#70. If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.
Nina Bawden
#71. I realized that I was trying to fit God's will into my will. Not out of disobedience, but out of fear that I would disappoint God, or let Him down.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#72. The reason why we look so crazy as Christians is because we see a world that the rest don't see. We see a God-bathed world in which we are perfectly safe. So safe, so set free from fear that we can even love our enemies without thought of the consequences.
Skye Jethani
#73. I choose faithfulness ... Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home.
Max Lucado
#74. I hope for some sort of peace - but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.
Harry Truman
#75. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric Hoffer
#76. I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't get off the ground.
Herb Kelleher
#77. Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Kenichi Fukui
#78. Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.'
Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
J.M. Barrie
#79. The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.
Edward Snowden
#80. The love of wicked men converts to fear, that fear to hate, and hate turns one or both to worthy danger and deserved death.
William Shakespeare
#81. Mr. Gibreel Farishta on the railway to London was once again seized as who would not be by the fear that God had decided to punish him for his loss of faith by driving him insane.
Salman Rushdie
#82. At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.
Donald L. Hicks
#83. I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
Donald Miller
#84. I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish ... like a broken silence.
L.M. Montgomery
#85. Today I will not be tempted to wander the byroads of pain, but rather I will set my feet upon the path of joy and peace. May the spirit of God protect my mind from any forces of fear that would divert my thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#86. I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
Carly Simon
#87. I fear that the evil which man brings into this world will never be squelched, leaving behind a terrible, uninhabitable wasteland of a world for our ... " She stuttered minutely before continuing, " ... children and their children.
Benjamin M. Strozykowski
#88. I fear that our clumsy pronouncements, our name-calling, our hysteria about important issues - in short, our lack of grace - may in the end prove so damaging that society no longer looks to us for the guidance it needs.
Philip Yancey
#89. Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
Isabel Allende
#90. You resist my words because of your own insecurities and the fear that right now you could be the God that you truly are.
Jamila Hammad
#91. I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.
Julia Lee Dean
#92. The fear of the crowd then came to Will, with the taste of a copper penny placed on his tongue; and it was not the fear that they were under divine judgement, but that they were not, and could never be.
Sarah Perry
#93. I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
Henry David Thoreau
#94. Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.
Mindy Kaling
#95. I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.
Courtney Milan
#96. I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.
John C. Danforth
#97. There is no happy medium to our food; it is either overcooked or undercooked, or it has too much salt or not enough, or there is not enough oil in the fried vegetables or there is so much that you almost fear that America will invade.
Petina Gappah
#98. Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.
Fabrizio De Andre
#99. If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
