Fear Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs and Sayings

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Arthur Baldwin

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the most cruel.
Georges Bernanos

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
David Seabury

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd Douglas

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale

Clarity is obtained when you can separate your sleep dreams, your fears, your fantasies and your reality.
P.J. Varsalona

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth– more than ruin, more even than death.
Bertrand Russell

I am never afraid of what I know.
Anna Sewell

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

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. McIntyre

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (First Inaugural Address, 1933)

In the Nineteenth Century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.
Anonymous

The craven’s fear is but selfishness, like his merriment.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Jean Anouilh

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Francis Bacon

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.
Lidwig Borne.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato

Great fear is concealed under daring.
F. L. Lucan

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson