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50 Feeling Scared Quotes to Express Your Fear

Fear. At times, it’s a very beneficial item that protects us from damage. But often, it’s an inner voice or barrier that prevents us from moving forward. Fear is a very unpleasant feeling that occurs when one perceives or recognizes a threat or danger.

Fear results in physiological alterations that might result in behavioral responses like mounting an aggressive defense or running away from the threat.

50 Feeling Scared Quotes

Reading a wise saying won’t help you totally get over your fear, especially if it’s one of change, the unknown, or possible failure.

10 Feeling Scared Quotes

1. “I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.” — Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

2. “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still, it will return.” — Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

3. “He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.” — George Orwell, 1984

4. “Ignorance is the parent of fear.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

5. “Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” — Stephen King

6. “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in a storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentleman.” — Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

7. “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” — Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

8. “On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” — George Orwell, 1984

9. “If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?” — George Orwell, 1984

10. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is a little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” — Frank Herbert, Dune

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11. “Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” — George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

12. “Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren’t.” — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

13. “If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” — Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus

14. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

15. “Fear… is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, and shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It always begins in your mind, so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.” — Yann Martel, Life of Pi

16. “In time we hate that which we often fear.” — William Shakespeare, Antony, and Cleopatra

17. “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

18. “People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.” — Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

19. “It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.” — Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

20. “What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. ” — Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

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21. “It is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.” — Neil Gaiman, Coraline

22. “The unknown awakens in us a reptilian dread that plays out with the same ferocity on scales personal, societal, and civilizational, whether triggered by a new life-chapter or a new political regime or a new world order.” — Maria Popova, Figuring

23. “Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it’s some big scary thing, but the familiar has always bothered me. It’s heavy, builds up around you like rocks until it’s walled and a ceiling and a cell.” — V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

24. “If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.” — George Orwell, 1984

25. “There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic… Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.” — Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

26. “We meet fear…We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.” — Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

27. “But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” — Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

28. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” — H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

29. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

30. “People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

31. “When we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.” — Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

32. “The key to change is letting go of the fear.” — Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

33. “Some people will always fear change. But we can’t indulge them.” — Veronica Roth, Allegiant

34. “If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual.” — Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy

35. “How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.” — Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

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36. “Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.” — Bell Hooks, The Will to Change

37. “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

38. “I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn’t find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.” — Tana French, In the Woods

39. “I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.” — Shauna Niequist

40. “Kindness eases change. Love quiets fear.” — Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

10 Feeling Scared Quotes about Life

41. “Love is scary! Taking a vow to love someone through sickness and health, for richer or poorer, forsaking all others, until death do us part, is the most terrifying experience a person can have. Why pretend any differently?” — Elin Hilderbrand, Beautiful Day

42. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

43. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

44. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life

45. “We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.” — Trevor Noah, Born a Crime

46. “Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s a vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.” — Michelle Obama, Becoming

47. “Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.” — Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall

48. “Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.” — Veronica Roth, Divergent

49. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

50. “Don’t be ashamed of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game

How can you overcome your fear?

Some effective ways through which you can overcome your fear to an extent-

  • Try Relaxing Yourself: There may be further underlying causes for your inability to finish your essay or to write one. You might want to give yourself some time to unwind because of this.
  • Find the Root Cause: The root of the fear may often be very deep. If you don’t comprehend a problem, you can’t solve it.
  • Accept the Fear and Live with it: Accepting a circumstance and learning to live with it can be preferable at times. Accepting your fears allows you to prepare because you are aware of what to expect. Imagine the complete scenario and begin formulating a plan of action for when it materializes.

Finally, overcoming anxieties is a difficult endeavor. You must realize, nevertheless, that you are in charge of your future and shouldn’t let your worries rule your actions. In actuality, nothing should lead you to believe that you are incapable of completing any assignment.

Gauri Singh Thakur
Gauri Singh Thakur

Hello Readers, I'm Gauri, graduated from Delhi University and have 3 years of experience as proficient content writer. I appreciate writing articles that help readers become better individuals.

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