Fear Quotes

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

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean de la Bruyere

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de la Bruyere

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J. G. Ballard

I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale.

Jo Bonner

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Joe Biden

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Joel Barlow

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.

John Berger

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

John Bruton

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

John O. Brennan

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much te...

Joko Beck

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

Jonathan Brandis

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

Jonathan Brandis

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

Josephine Baker

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Josh Billings

It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thi...

Joyce Banda

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Judy Blume

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Judy Blume

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

Julian Baggini