“When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.”
William Shakespeare
AnxietyBetrayal
Fear Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FEAR
Fear Quotes
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.
“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”
Francis Bacon
Overcoming FearPhilosophy
“Some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all.”
Seneca
WorryStoicism
“Fear keeps pace with hope.”
Seneca
HopeStoicism
“Neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.”
The Bible (Isaiah 8:12)
FaithPeace Of Mind
“I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.”
William Shakespeare
PrideFearlessness
“How all the other passions fleet to air, as doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, and shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!”
William Shakespeare
LoveEmotions
“I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, that almost freezes up the heat of life.”
William Shakespeare
DreadAnxiety
“Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.”
The Bible (Matthew 10:28)
FaithFearlessness
“Fear, and be slain; no worse can come to fight: and fight and die is death destroying death; where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”
William Shakespeare
CourageFear Of Death
“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”
Cicero
LeadershipDuty
“Whom they fear they hate.”
Ennius
PowerTyranny
“Let them hate, so long as they fear.”
Lucius Accius
PowerTyranny
“Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 1:8)
Fear Of OthersFaith
“When I have fears that I may cease to be before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.”
John Keats
Fear Of DeathAmbition
“Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul of the wide world dreaming on things to come.”
William Shakespeare
Fear Of The FuturePoetry
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
Bram Stoker
HopeNight
“Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace.”
The Bible (Acts 18:9)
Speaking UpBoldness
“Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up fostered alike by beauty and by fear.”
William Wordsworth
ChildhoodNature
“Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!”
Robert Burns
AnimalsPanic
“A cry of defiance and not of fear, a voice in the darkness, a knock at the door.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
DefianceCourage
“Be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee.”
The Bible (Ezekiel 2:6)
Fear Of OthersCriticism
“Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die?”
The Bible (Isaiah 51:12)
Fear Of OthersPerspective
“The anxieties of common life began soon to succeed to the alarms of romance.”
Jane Austen
AnxietyEveryday Life
“If I could but shudder! If I could but shudder!”
Brothers Grimm
FearlessnessFairy Tales