Top 490 Fear Quotes

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.

Steven Pressfield

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

Jack Kornfield

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Peter Straub

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.

Siouxsie Sioux

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Dorothy Thompson

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

L. Neil Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Frederick W. Smith

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