Fear Quotes
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Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.
William Butler Yeats -
There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.
Jennifer Donnelly
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The elementary self system in the brain stem and limbic system is massively activated when people are faced with the threat of annihilation, which results in an overwhelming sense of fear and terror accompanied by intense physiological arousal. To people who are reliving a trauma, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fear or blind rage. Mind and body are constantly aroused, as if they are in imminent danger.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
Seth Godin -
Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.
Adam Lashinsky -
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
Georges Simenon -
The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.
Gene Luen Yang -
Satan's greatest fear is that you would believe what God said about you.
Karen Wheaton
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Mr. Dawson's wife was really so very meek that I fear when the Day of Reckoning comes much of this tyranny will be forgiven him and laid to her account.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.
Gavin Extence -
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
Victor Hugo -
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
Gautama Buddha
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When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?
William Wordsworth -
Fear and aversion, in some perverse way, can be transformed into pleasure.
Bessel van der Kolk -
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
Tony Kushner -
Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
Wesley Earl Craven -
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
Joyce Meyer -
My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
John Joseph Lydon
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Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.
Anthony Robbins -
...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 -
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
Seneca the Younger