Fear Quotes by Famous Authors

Death, Fear, Mortality, Life, End

992. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

Doubts, Traitors, Fear, Attempt, Opportunity

993. “Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!”

Soul, Divining, Fear, Intuition, Omen

994. “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”

Death, Sleep, Dreams, Uncertainty, Fear

995. “I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

Battle, Death, Charity, Blood, Fear

996. “In time we hate that which we often fear.”

Fear, Hatred, Time, Emotion, Change

997. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

Greatness, Fear, Destiny, Achievement, Opportunity

998. “Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down.”

Chaos, Goblin, Mischief, Fear, Repetition

999. “And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.”

Smiling, Deception, Mischief, Fear, Appearance

1000. “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

Guilt, Jealousy, Fear, Spilling, Innocence

1001. “I have supped full with horrors.”

Horror, Experience, Life, Fear, Reflection

1002. “Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

Conscience, Fear, Cowardice, Reflection, Morality

1003. “I have almost forgotten 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 supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.”

Fear, Horror, Resilience, Desensitization, Reflection

1004. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

Courage, Death, Cowardice, Life, Fear

1005. “It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”

Mystery, Religion, Fear, Humanity, Belief

1006. “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”

Death, Fear, Life, Humor, Reflection

1007. “If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

Morality, Fear, Reward, Humanity, Insight

1008. “Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.”

Fear, Stupidity, Actions, Basis, Humanity

1009. “Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”

Forces, World, Rule, Stupidity, Fear

1010. “If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”

Fear, Life, Death, Anxiety, Existence

1011. “We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”

Anxiety, Society, Awareness, Fear, News

1012. “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.”

Crisis, Security, Awareness, Fear, Leadership

1013. “A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”