Fear Quotes
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Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.
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So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
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Your power ends where your fear begins.
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Fear: the best way out is through.
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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
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I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed.
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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.
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If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
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It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
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I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
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To move past fear is a cliche.
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The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".
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"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."
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The mere fact that Tommy Atkins saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.
