Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

I tend to scare myself.

Stanislav Grof

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Stanislaw Lem

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

Sigmund Freud

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

Shirley Jackson

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

Shirley Hazzard

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

Shirley MacLaine

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

Pope John Paul II

You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

Pierre Corneille

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

Pierre Corneille

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Kelly Reilly

When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.

Ramana Maharshi

If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body that is born resolves itself into thought and that the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.

James Madison

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

James M. Cain

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

James M. Cain

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

Stanley Kubrick

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

Stanley Kubrick

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

Stephenie Meyer

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

Stefan Zweig

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Thomas Hobbes

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Umberto Eco

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Rhonda Britten

Complaining advertizes your fears.

Rex Stout

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Veronica Roth

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Veronica Roth

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Veronica Roth

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Veronica Roth

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Maggie Stiefvater

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.