Top 100 Fears That Quotes
#1. My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.
Miru Kim
#2. My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood in the way, and I joined in them myself. Umble we are, umble we have been, umble we shall ever be,' said Mrs. Heep.
Charles Dickens
#3. It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.
Idina Menzel
#4. The world is now changing, reviving fears that were familiar in Hitler's time, and to which Hitler responded. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned.
Timothy Snyder
#5. Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
#7. Patient sees [lithium] medication as a promise of a cure, and a means of suicide if it doesn't work. She fears that by taking it she will risk her last resort
Kay Redfield Jamison
#8. She herself feels unequal to the world's sufferings and fears that by narrowing her focus on the world to make it manageable, she has trivialized it.
Edward Hirsch
#9. But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?
J.F. Penn
#10. Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.
Robin S. Sharma
#11. I think we have to own the fears that we
have of each other, and then, in some
practical way, some daily way, figure
out how to see people differently
than the way we were brought up to.
Alice Walker
#12. Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance.
Eula Biss
#13. I had a lot of fears that the universe would discover just how different I was from it.
Philip K. Dick
#14. You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
James Joyce
#15. Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would live long enough to finish a feature film or television series? And would the unions force directors to give blood tests and ban actors who tested positive?
Michael Shnayerson
#16. There are fears that Britain could be facing a double-dip recession, or worse still, a double-dip with misery sprinkles and fuck-where's-my-job-sauce.
Frankie Boyle
#17. You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.
Wes Craven
#18. Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly.
Raymond E. Feist
#19. Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.
Kofi Annan
#20. Sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can't
quite explain. Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but
would sound foolish to anyone else.
Julia Quinn
#21. Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.
Marianne Williamson
#22. Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.
John Milton
#23. It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
Julie Taymor
#24. Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
Erwin McManus
#25. One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.
James Wolcott
#26. I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
Justin Trudeau
#27. I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
Yann Martel
#28. The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.
Aly Raisman
#29. Most fears that have to do with people working remotely stem from a lack of trust.
Jason Fried
#30. Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
Leo Buscaglia
#31. He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
Baruch Spinoza
#32. My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.
Elon Musk
#33. I waited for you. All these years I watched and waited, knowing, somehow, that what we would have would be different. That it would be worth the lonely nights and the fears that I had missed you somewhere.
Lora Leigh
#34. I always knew she loved me, but I didn't need to accept everything she gave me, like her fears that people would let you down when you needed them, or the conviction that danger lurked behind every unguarded moment.
Mani Feniger
#35. This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.
Julian Barnes
#36. There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.
Lemony Snicket
#37. In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is less rich than his father was, and he fears that his sons will be less rich than himself.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#38. I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
Daniel Handler
#39. No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
Gordon Brown
#40. When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of the previous one. He fears that too much handling will make it crumble.
Abraham Verghese
#41. We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
Ban Ki-moon
#42. I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.
Alwyn Hamilton
#43. There really is only one fear. It's just broken down into many little fears. The one fear is that we can't handle our fears. That's why we have them, to go through them.
Art Hochberg
#44. And I have always found, though I am unable to account for it, that daylight banishes many of the fears that are apt to assail us in the dark.
R.M. Ballantyne
#45. I sometimes had fears that at some point, not many years in the future, we would converge upon the exact same age.
Zadie Smith
#46. They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Booker T. Washington
#48. If you can empathize with the fears that make people heroes, villains and victims, then you are doing darshan. For then you look beyond the boundaries that separate you from the rest.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#49. Sometimes we are so busy living our fears that we forgot to live our dreams
Steven Aitchison
#50. The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.
Norman Corwin
#51. Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
Louis De Bernieres
#52. I don't think fear that you share with the whole world warps you. It's personal fears that do that.
Elizabeth Goudge
#53. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's ... that's what makes us strong.
Yuki
#54. Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.
Elena Ferrante
#55. The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished ... days, weeks, months past.
Francisco Leon
#56. Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
Camille Paglia
#57. When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
[Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#58. On the energetic level, it often happens that the intensity and power of your aspirations are smaller than those of the doubts, resistance, and fears that plague you.
Bianca Gaia
#59. Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.
Perry Brass
#60. Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
Gina Greenlee
#61. Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
#62. A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.
Muhammadu Buhari
#63. Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
Josephus Daniels
#64. The point is to face the fears that are going to be thrown at you, face them, and defeat them because the greatest fears are the ones your mind creates. Those are the only fears that can truly have power over you. Don't let them.
Quinn Loftis
#65. The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness - to the individual himself and to others - and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides
Kay Redfield Jamison
#66. And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.
Jane Yolen
#67. Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.
Reinhard Bonnke
#68. God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard driver. He wants to provide.
Anna White
#69. I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
Hans Blix
#70. Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.
Halle Berry
#71. I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong.-Yuki
Natsuki Takaya
#73. Sometimes ... " Anthony said in a halting voice, "sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can't quite explain. Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else."
-Anthony to Kate
Julia Quinn
#74. The time where we are most likely to change is when we are at the edge of the abyss. The moment of our darkest fears, that time each of us must face, is also the instant of our most brilliant clarity.
Kathy Bell
#75. It's what Joyce Meyer calls, "New levels, new devils."2 Even if you conquer your fear of doing one thing, the moment you try something new, push your limits, or take on a new challenge, you're going to have a whole new set of fears that come with it.
Christy Wright
#76. When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain.
John Keats
#77. You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.
Wallace D. Wattles
#78. It is not on your fears that good dreams are built but on hope and determination - rjs
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#79. Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.
Richard Preston
#80. The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me, because even then, in some inchoate form, I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#81. Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.
Henry Anatole Grunwald
#82. Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks ... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.
Brent Weeks
#83. When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.
Evander Holyfield
#84. The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It's not where we live, but life itself.
Dennis Vickers
#85. People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.
Francis Collins
#86. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can't be changed - these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy.
John Piper
#87. Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize
Wulfgar
R.A. Salvatore
#88. We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.
Guy Finley
#89. Your dreams and goals are bigger than small minded people or the fears that they harbor. Don't let their ocean of fear trap you in the undertow.
Jaha Knight
#90. For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never "wash out the stain of servility." There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.
Nancy Isenberg
#91. The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don't want the public knowing about.
Gerald Celente
#92. But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Arianna Huffington
#93. This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
Walter Lippmann
#94. That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use those things to get what they want from you. Most
Lisa Unger
#95. If you have a big destiny, you're going to have to meet and face some big demons. But the good news is that your strength and power is big enough to conquer them all. You are strong enough to overcome all obstacles in your way and to fulfill your Destiny.
Jeanette Coron
#96. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.
Anthony Doerr
#97. One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.
Judd Apatow
#98. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
Phineas Quimby
#99. Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces usually consist of fears, worries and doubts.
Maddy Malhotra
#100. The Word says that if we have a faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains. And yet, we limit what God can accomplish through us when we continuously mull over our fears, feed our hopelessness, and encourage anxiety, which then causes doubt. Doubt hinders God's power.
Cheryl Zelenka
