Quotes about Fear

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

I'm the person I am because of all the support we have but inside there is still a scared, gay kid, worried he's going to get bullied and people aren't going to like what I do.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

May you always do what you are afraid to do.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ? is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.