Quotes about fear
124 quotes from 100 people
In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 107
Frank Herbert1920–1986Dune (1965), the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (22 May 1977)
Alan Mooreborn 1953“The Mindscape of Alan Moore” (2003)
Bret Easton Ellisborn 1964Less Than Zero (1985)
Rosa Parks1913–2005Quiet Strength (2000)The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaineborn 1934Don’t Fall Off the Mountain (1970)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)
Audie Murphy1925–1971“Quotation from Audie Murphy: American Soldier”, by Harold Simpson (1999), pp. 369-371Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself
It’s a little Anxious,” he said to himself, “to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.
