Quotes About Being Scared

#1. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

Lana Parrilla

#2. It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Lena Dunham

#3. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.

Uzoma Nnadi

#4. If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

P.C. Cast

#5. I've done the being-miserable-apart thing for the last three months and it blows. I'm ready to try the scared-shitless-together part.

Georgia Cates

#6. Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Corey Hart

#7. I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well.

Roger Staubach

#8. People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

Jason Blum

#9. Oh, honey, being scared but still doing the right thing is what being brave is all about.

Kerry Alan Denney

#10. It was about being scared shitless, knowing the source of your fears, understanding them, outsmarting them, and going forth to conquer them anyway. I

Kristen Ashley

#11. I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#12. I'm so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that he'd tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I can't see for myself anymore.

Krista Ritchie

#13. In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.

Anne Ortlund

#14. Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

Hilary Duff

#15. I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead.

Neil Gaiman

#16. I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

Kid Rock

#17. I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

Harold Brodkey

#18. It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.

Malorie Blackman

#19. We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Erica Jong

#20. Most people get scared away from having an opinion. It's not so much my opinions everybody relates to, it's that I don't care about being punished for it.

Ronda Rousey

#21. I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

Alex Hirsch

#22. I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

Robert Englund

#23. If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.

Kerry Greenwood

#24. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.

Jon Michaelsen

#25. There is nothing wrong with being scared. It only means that something important is at stake.

Sarah Fine

#26. I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

Sarah Kay

#27. Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.

Alessandra Torre

#28. I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

Tananarive Due

#29. I began to get a feeling ( ... ) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

William S. Burroughs

#30. I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Ben Stein

#31. I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

Ozzy Osbourne

#32. And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means?

It means being scared but doing it anyway.

Marilyn Hilton

#33. I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.

Jessica Sorensen

#34. Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

John Connolly

#35. I don't know if i can," I said, looking up into Archer's eyes. "Honestly, Archer ... I'm tired of being scared, tired of loving you on one hand and hating you on the other.

J.L. McCoy

#36. I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Culllen. And that was very, very stupid.

Stephenie Meyer

#37. No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

Catherine Tate

#38. When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Vanessa Hudgens

#39. At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Kendrick Lamar

#40. Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.

Russell Baker

#41. I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.

Sarah Dessen

#42. So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

Arthur Hailey

#43. Being Tranquil didn't sound so bad to him. He'd been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it seemed like it would be a relief to get it over with. You were only scared of becoming nothing until you were nothing.
Just like dying

David Gaider

#44. Everyone falls eventually," Piper told me. "You think it'll hurt. But it's falling with no bottom. You just keep going and going forever, just falling deeper and deeper. And once you stop being scared, it's kind of fun.

Kate Karyus Quinn

#45. Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

Freddie Highmore

#46. I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

Hugh Jackman

#47. I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

Shania Twain

#48. Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.

Neil Gaiman

#49. You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

Harvey MacKay

#50. And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

Tahereh Mafi

#51. I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

Claire Coffee

#52. I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes

#53. I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#54. I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

Donald Glover

#55. Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Neil Gaiman

#56. Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.

Nely Cab

#57. I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

Jackie Chan

#58. I was relying on Suliman being alive.THen when all that seemed to be left of him was Percival, I was so scared I had to go out and get drunk. And then you go and play into the Witch's hand!" "I'm the eldest!" Sophie shrieked. "I'm a failure!" "Garbage!" Howl shouted. "You just never stop to think!

Diana Wynne Jones

#59. Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about,

Sandra Bullock

#60. But I love him like crazy, you know? And when you love someone like crazy, should you stand around being scared that something might not work out, or do you do something about it and take a chance?

Mary Calmes

#61. That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

Mira Grant

#62. I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Edy Ganem

#63. It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.

Nina Dobrev

#64. We should love the fact that we're not just getting one point of view. That we have this diversity in entertainment, and people are not scared to be themselves, and people are not scared to make people uncomfortable, and that's all part of it. That's all part of being free.

Ice Cube

#65. Being brave means that you're the only one who knows how scared you really are.

Deborah Rix

#66. Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason.

Rose McGowan

#67. So being brave doesn't mean you're not scared, then." "It means you're scared, and you do what you have to do in spite of it.

Mark Frost

#68. You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

David Foster Wallace

#69. How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human,

Frank Warren

#70. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

#71. Being scared is not always something to be scared of

Liz Bowen

#72. Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

Mary Gaitskill

#73. The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Kirsten Dunst

#74. So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

David Alan Harvey

#75. I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.

Chris Carmack

#76. Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to.

Jodi Picoult

#77. All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world".

Jay Woodman

#78. Fortunately, it turns out that being scared of yourself is a somewhat effective motivational technique.

Allie Brosh

#79. It never ceases to amaze me when God wants to take someone to the next level in their life and they let fear of the unknown rob them of tremendous blessings. I think there are two common problems with Christians- They are scared to death of being truly free and of God's overwhelming love.

R. Alan Woods

#80. I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

John Le Carre

#81. A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.

Ralph Wiley

#82. The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

Bruce Rasmussen

#83. I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

Mitt Romney

#84. It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

Randy Harrison

#85. I've learned a lot about being in the public eye. I'm certainly handling things more maturely now, I'm not getting as scared as easily.

Tim Lincecum

#86. I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

Caity Lotz

#87. The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Billie Jean King

#88. There's nothing wrong with being scared ... It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we're afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.

Kristin Hannah

#89. What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear ... This was not a human being at all.

Philip K. Dick

#90. I'm scared of being seen. I'm scared of doing anything. I'm scared of losing another person who loves me. I'd rather just drift.

Cecily Anne Paterson

#91. But fear lets us know we're alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn't waste time being scared about things that don't matter.

Cora Carmack

#92. If you're scared to be alone, you are alone.

Marty Rubin

#93. Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it ... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.
-Carl Grimes

Robert Kirkman

#94. Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!

Mel Brooks

#95. We've both changed. We're tired of having the world push us into places we don't want to be. We're both scared of losing love that maybe we never had to being with. We can have whatever we want in our lives. It's only a matter of deciding. But we don't have to do it alone. We have each other.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#96. I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

Scott Foley

#97. I think horror movies are still - this can be said of all movies - but being with a group of people scared together is more and more something unusual and fun. Especially for kids who are going out less generally.

Jason Blum

#98. I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

Desmond Tutu

#99. Lord make me happy enough in the grace of Jesus to avoid being proud, cold, scared, and hooked.

Timothy Keller

#100. I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

Bernie Sanders