Fear Quotes

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

Scott Adams

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

A. S. Byatt

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word...

Saint Basil

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

Samantha Bee

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Samuel Butler

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

Sandra Bullock

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an Asian character, I might get a call. But if the cha...

Sanjeev Bhaskar

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

Sara Bareilles

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

Sara Blakely

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.

Shelley Berkley

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Simone de Beauvoir

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

Stephanie Beacham

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

Steve Bartlett

I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.

Susanne Bier

I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

Shanley Caswell

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

Sharon Creech

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

Simon Cowell

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Socrates

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a ...

Susan Cain

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear ...

Susan Cain