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Fear Quotes


"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."


"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."


"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."


"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."


"I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years."


"But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear."


"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that."


"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."


"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."


"If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves."


"Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves."



"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."


"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."


"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"


"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."


"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."


"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."


"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."



"We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen."


"Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters."


"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."


"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."


"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."



"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."


"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."
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