Fear Quotes
The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.
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"I felt all the muscles of my body become rigid, the blood ebb to my heart alone."Edgar Allan Poe
"I felt a cleaving in my mind as if my brain had split."Emily Dickinson
"The fear we do not name becomes our master."Emily Dickinson
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore cruelty and fear form a part of every tyrant's equipment."Washington Irving
"Fear is nothing but the anticipation of loss, and loss is inevitable."Herman Melville
"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."Edgar Allan Poe
"I felt the fingers of the fiend clutching at my heart."Edgar Allan Poe
"The soul has bandaged moments when too appalled to stir."Emily Dickinson
"I am afraid to own a Body so opal for fear he should observe unboarded."Emily Dickinson
"A solemn thing it was I said to be afraid and he not there."Emily Dickinson
"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Fear is the path to wisdom."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Face fear bravely."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"My heart sank when I realized the true nature of my predicament."Henry James
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it."Henry James
"The worst that can happen to a person is never what they expect."Henry James
"Fear is the greatest prison of the mind."François Mauriac
"The fear of judgment prevents many from living authentically."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Fear is the ancestor of cruelty."Herman Melville
"Fear is the only honest emotion; everything else is pretense."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Men destroy what they fear most deeply."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Fear is the invitation to discover what we are truly capable of."François Mauriac
"Fear is the compass that points toward our deepest growth."François Mauriac
"The difference between Despair and Fear is sometimes only the length of a Night."Emily Dickinson
"The human race is a race of cowards."Mark Twain
"Despair is the only one of the vices which was not known to the Greeks."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The human race is governed by fear, not by reason."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Fear is the enemy of growth."Romain Rolland
"Fear diminishes when we face it."Romain Rolland
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."Anatole France