Fear Quotes

The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.

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"Those who fear change fear the very geography that surrounds them."
Strabo
"The man who fears poverty deserves poverty."
Diogenes Laërtius
"The man who does not fear death has nothing left to fear."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"We all share a common fear of the dark."
Juvenal
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"Fear is the greatest obstacle to achievement."
Juvenal
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"Fear is the greatest prison we construct for ourselves."
Apuleius
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"Ignorance is the cause of fear."
Strabo
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"Those who fear death already possess its pain."
Petronius
"Fear is the greatest prison of all."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Fear makes cowards of us all, until we face it."
Juvenal
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"Fear is the offspring of ignorance; knowledge dispels it like light dispels darkness."
Porphyry
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"Fear grows in darkness; illuminate it with understanding and it dissolves."
Porphyry
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"Fear is the greatest prison of all."
Apuleius
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"Fear is the oldest enemy of progress."
Apuleius
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Martial
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"Face your fears to grow."
Martial
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"Fear is the greatest enemy of human progress."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Fear is the path to the dark side."
Suetonius
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Suetonius
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"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."
Tacitus
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"Fear grows in the darkness; light dispels it."
Tacitus
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"The man who fears nothing has already lost everything."
Juvenal
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"Fear is the shadow cast by ignorance."
Juvenal
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"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."
Horace
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"Fear is simply the mind preparing us for what may come."
Martial
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"Fear is the mind's way of protecting us from growth."
Martial
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
Livy
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Livy
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Pliny the Younger
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"Fear is faith in the wrong thing."
Pliny the Younger