Quotes about Fear

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

I do not mind Bedouins,—I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?

Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word. I touched off one of my electric connections, and all that murky world of people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare! It was immense—that effect! Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons. The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.