Fear Quotes

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned. Halle Berry
Life Fear Abandoned Had Going Whole
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. Helen Fisher
Love Depression Anger Fear Chemistry Willing Supernatural Study Until Were Brain Regarded Recently
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. Henry Louis Gates
Blame Hate People Anxiety Fear Somebody Fears Leader Those Pie Look Real Afraid Speaks Shrinking
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death. Huston Smith
Death Me People Fear Other Inordinate Becoming Test However Any Dependent
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. Isabel Allende
Sad Angry You Happy Fear Unhappy No Fear Sullen Kid Ghosts About Uncomfortable Write Writers Had Sure Very Going Childhood Childhoods Who
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you. Iyanla Vanzant
Love You Respect Human Being Fear Losing Will Pain Other Others Visited Perceived Prevent Devastation Share Greatest Loss Same Human Being Order Anything Your Avoid Connection Trauma Humans Chances
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. J. G. Ballard
Future Soul Fear Word Nothing Sum Everything Would One Word Boring About Vast Exciting New Up Going Just Happen Happened Suburb Again Conforming Interesting Ever
Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs. James Comey
Crazy People Fear Car Approaching Fire Down Late-Night Windows Only Pounding Hostile Feel Like Execute Real Up Real People Person Pit Stop Stairs Crazy Person Agents Helicopter Warrant Flight Search
Do not let fear become disabling. That is what the terrorists want. They want you to imagine them in the shadows; they want you to imagine them as something greater than they are. James Comey
You Fear Become Shadows Something Greater Terrorists Than Want Them Imagine
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. James K. Polk
Government World Fear Ambition Nothing Military Our
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art. Jason McCoy
Art Great Fear Think Great Art Honestly Greatest Making
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Jean Baudrillard
Day Dark Fear Other Side Our Television TV Embodies Knows Perpetual Things Night
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Jean de La Fontaine
Fear Everyone Faults Neither Shame He Continually His Nor Repeats Cure Which Them
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Jean de la Bruyere
Wise Fear Society Bored Wise Person Person Often Being
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life. Jennifer Lopez
Life Alone People Fear My Life Think Though Seek Adored Drives Had Performers Most Limelight Around Always Becoming Were Lot Huge Afraid Being Want Dying Loved Being Alone Which Us Ill Why Thing
Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me. Jerry West
Motivational Me Failure Fear Tool Drives Greatest
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love You Creative Fear Word Sense Guided Something Spontaneously Forced Without Controlled Being Which Naturally Original Initiative
Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it. Jimmy Iovine
Life Balance Fear Life Is A Overcoming
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear. John B. S. Haldane
Fear Long National Research Think Our Systems Economic Scientific Scientific Research However Continue Little Present
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all. John Bruton
Fear States Deterred Retaliation Cannot Organisations
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. John Buchan
Peace Fear Unknown State Kind Any Which
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear. John Ortberg
Life People Fear Made First Longing Fall Go Away Our Inside Throughout Never Weird Know Also Known Got Still Go Were Exist Cultures Human After Us Across Deep Deep Inside Now Away Deepest
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. Jonathan Sacks
Faith Day People Fear Free Live Jews Gave One Day Would Would-Be Never Because Without Were Up Itself Survived Regarded Which Centuries Holocaust Even Defeats
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? Joseph Conrad
You Heart Fear Throat Through Take Head Does How Off Wonder Shoot Slash Specter
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. Julia Ward Howe
Happiness Future Fear Feeling Past Nothing Melancholy Attached Except Remembrance Know Bright Why
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship! Karen Salmansohn
Relationship People Fear Pain Believe Relationships Bad Stay Dating Longer Because Than Often Should Even
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