Phobia! Famous quotes on fear!

Perhaps the most famous fear quote of all time:

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning,
unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat
into advance."
FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

"One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to
kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear.
None of us can hate anymore - or love."
Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939)

"What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
Wordsworth

"Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love."
Frederick Knott - Max Halliday, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952)

"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!"
Will - Sonnets

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."
Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)

"- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs."
Will - The Taming of the Shrew

"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."
Dave Barry

"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?"
Luciano Pavarotti

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."
German Proverb

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."
Francis Bacon

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."
H.P. Lovecraft

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."
Coleridge

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

"A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."
Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)

"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all"
James Graham - Marquis of Montrose

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."
Will - Macbeth

"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."
Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)

"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."
Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)

"Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts."
Brigitte Bardot

"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"
Trevor Kay

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)

Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)

aaah.. my worst fear is to be wrong.. what about you??