Quotes about fear
124 quotes from 100 people
It’s a little Anxious,” he said to himself, “to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 18
Alan Mooreborn 1953“The Mindscape of Alan Moore” (2003)
Audie Murphy1925–1971“Quotation from Audie Murphy: American Soldier”, by Harold Simpson (1999), pp. 369-371No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow1908–1965CBS television broadcast, on See It Now (7 March 1954)
Huey P. Newton1942–1989Revolutionary Suicide (1973), p. 190Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
Barack Obamaborn 1961News conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, London (1 April 2009)My strength doesn’t come from a lack of fear but from an overpowering sense of moral outrage.
Ilhan Omarborn 1982This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2020)
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Heroides, I, 12
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 1
Rosa Parks1913–2005Quiet Strength (2000)
Blaise Pascal1623–1662“The Misery of Man Without God”: “Man’s Disproportion,” The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier Tr. C. Kegan Paul (1885)
