Fears Quotes

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
Dan Stevens

Great, Moving, Enemy

Never take counsel of your fears.
Stonewall Jackson

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.
LL Cool J

Face, Stand, Defeat

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Jerry Gillies

Put, Able, Move

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
Lauryn Hill

Fear, Insecurity, Black

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff

Life, Death, Cannot

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson

Life, Worst, Losses

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell

Best, Live, True

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Marilyn French

Fear, Why, Afraid

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.
Lewis Thomas

Mind, Deep, Wrong

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.
James Wolcott

True, Mean, Through

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.
Gwen Stefani

Time, Amazing, Children

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
David Icke

True, Greatest, Talk

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
Meryl Streep

True, Feeling, May

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
Mike Krzyzewski

Human, Unless, Doubts

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
Virginia C. Andrews

Fear, Children, Control

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti

Nothing, Him, Strange

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
June Jordan

America, Reason, Violence

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.
Lisa Bonet

Everyone, Story, Face

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
Laura Schlessinger

Life, Away, Won

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
Adam Arkin

Chance, Worse, Horror

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly

Fear, Hate, Before

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
George Saunders

Time, Nice, Actually

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
Fiona Apple

Person, Done, Once

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
Fran Drescher

Positive, Talk, Talking

There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack of social need taps straight into our worst fears as the human inhabitants of New York.
Sloane Crosley

Crazy, Human, Person

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens

Poetry, Same, Might

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
J. J. Abrams

Time, Society, Long

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
Stokely Carmichael

Power, Black, America

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.
Tim Allen

Father, Losing, Kid

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