“Fear and I were born twins together.”
Thomas Hobbes

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FEAR
Read the best fear quotes from Shakespeare, Seneca, the Bible, Emerson and more, with timeless words to help you face your fears and find courage.
“Fear and I were born twins together.”
Thomas Hobbes
“Fear has many eyes, and can see things underground.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.”
The Bible (Psalm 27:3)
“Black Care sits behind the horseman.”
Horace
“Fears and scruples shake us: in the great hand of God I stand.”
William Shakespeare
“O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!”
William Shakespeare
“Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.”
William Shakespeare
“Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”
The Bible (Genesis 15:1)
“Ghost of the Future! I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.”
Charles Dickens
“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
Charles Dickens
“Welcome to my house! Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!”
Bram Stoker
“The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.”
Washington Irving
“There is always someone worse off than yourself.”
Aesop
“Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.”
The Bible (Genesis 21:17)
“Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.”
The Bible (Lamentations 3:57)
“Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard.”
The Bible (Daniel 10:12)
“And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
The Bible (Hebrews 2:15)
“But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.”
The Bible (Proverbs 1:33)
“Be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.”
The Bible (1 Peter 3:14)
“Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.”
The Bible (Luke 5:10)
“Fear not; I am the first and the last.”
The Bible (Revelation 1:17)
“Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard.”
The Bible (Luke 1:13)
“The Lord is with us: fear them not.”
The Bible (Numbers 14:9)
“My spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.”
The Bible (Haggai 2:5)