quotations about fear
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Supernatural Horror in Literature
Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
ELIZABETH LESSER
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Once bitten by a snake, one is afraid at the sight of a mere rope.
CHINESE PROVERB
Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"Courage," Counsels by the Way
Some fearful sights there be that creep
By night -- I mean that harass sleep;
But tenfold more alarming seem these when
They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE
"The Link," Cloudrifts at Twilight
If evils come not, then our fears are vain:
And if they do, Fear but augments the pain.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741
Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.
TIM LEBBON
Fears Unnamed
I say it often, that fear is a liar. People think that fear protects you from getting hurt but the fact is that fear keeps you back from your greatest goals and your greatest achievements often in life.
NIK WALLENDA
"Legend Nik Wallenda announces walk across a high wire 25 stories above NYC's Times Square", ABC News, May 23, 2019