Fearful Thinking Quotes

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

It’ll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog. He doesn’t have a dog. Yeah, well, he might get one just to feed you to it. She’d never been the kind of person to let something as ridiculous as rational logic interfere with her fear.’ (Alix)

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.