Fear of People Quotes

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people and is a Tory [conservative] by nature. The healthy, strong and bold, cherishes them, and is formed a Whig [liberal] by nature.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

I hate walking up to strangers.