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
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"I felt a cleaving in my mind as if my brain had split."
Emily Dickinson
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"The fear we do not name becomes our master."
Emily Dickinson
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore cruelty and fear form a part of every tyrant's equipment."
Washington Irving
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"Fear is nothing but the anticipation of loss, and loss is inevitable."
Herman Melville
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"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I felt the fingers of the fiend clutching at my heart."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The soul has bandaged moments when too appalled to stir."
Emily Dickinson
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"I am afraid to own a Body so opal for fear he should observe unboarded."
Emily Dickinson
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"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
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"My heart sank when I realized the true nature of my predicament."
Henry James
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"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it."
Henry James
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"The worst that can happen to a person is never what they expect."
Henry James
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"Fear is the greatest prison of the mind."
François Mauriac
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"The fear of judgment prevents many from living authentically."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"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
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"Fear is the invitation to discover what we are truly capable of."
François Mauriac
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"Fear is the compass that points toward our deepest growth."
François Mauriac
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"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
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"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
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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
Anatole France