Self-fear Quotes

My biggest fear in life is fear.

I can scare myself like a pro.

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?

Fear is the fear of one's self.

It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Now I have normal-person fears - fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.

If anybody says they're not afraid of themselves, they're lying!

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.