Fear Quotes
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It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
Sherman Alexie
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
Emil Cioran
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
Sigmund Freud
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Fear is the foundation of all human limitations.
Benny Urquidez
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I think anytime you go into anything that's different and new, there's a bit of fear.
Kelly Marie Tran
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...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?
Rene Daumal
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Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.
Chris Priestley
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I knew Elvis Presley very well. He always felt somebody was after him. When you have that kind of a fear, that kind of an attitude, you attract people who want to do you harm.
Liberace
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Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.
Bridget of Sweden
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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.
Immanuel Kant
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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.
Erik Larson
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Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
Alexander Payne
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Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.
Hayley Kiyoko
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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
John Barrymore
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Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
Swami Sivananda
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The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.
John Sarbanes
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If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
Madame de Stael
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When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
Ali Vincent
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There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?
Debi Mazar
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There is no illusion great than fear.
Lao Tzu
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I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.
Mircea Eliade
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It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.
Jennifer Beals