Fear Quotes

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

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"Fear diminishes when faced courageously."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"We are afraid of each other because we don't know each other and we don't know each other because we are separated from each other."
Sinclair Lewis
"Fear is only as powerful as we allow it to be."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."
Washington Irving
"Fear is the most honest of all human emotions."
Theodore Dreiser
"Fear becomes our master only when we refuse to acknowledge it."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"Those who fear judgment often become the harshest judges."
Edith Wharton
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"Fear is the shadow cast by uncertainty."
Edith Wharton
"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Fear often masquerades as prudence, but true wisdom knows the difference."
Louisa May Alcott
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"I have a fear I will lose you."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I felt all the fingers and toes of my body standing on end."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I do believe in vampires, not in the ancient sense, but in the sense of those who would drain your very essence."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Fear is but a shadow; ignore it and it will diminish."
Washington Irving
"Fear of the unknown is often greater than the thing itself."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Fear is an advisor that should be heard but never obeyed."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Fear becomes our master only when we deny its presence."
James Fenimore Cooper
"No one is ever quite happy in those days when they are wishing for what they cannot have."
Willa Cather
"I am not afraid of the world, but I am afraid of myself sometimes."
Louisa May Alcott
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Fear conquered is a chain broken from the spirit."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Do what you fear most, and the death of fear is certain."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Fear is the shadow cast by our imagination; illuminate it with understanding and it dissolves."
Washington Irving
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"Fear loses its power when we acknowledge it, name it, and proceed despite its presence."
Washington Irving
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"The difference between Despair and Fear is like the difference between the Ground and the Air."
Emily Dickinson
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"The greatest horrors in life come not from external threats but from within the human heart."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Fear is the ancestor of all human wisdom."
Edgar Allan Poe
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."
Edgar Allan Poe