Fear Quotes

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

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"The anguish which I experience as I stand before the abyss is the anguish of freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The source of all false judgment is fear."
Denis Diderot
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"Fear is stronger than love."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Do not choose to be paralyzed by the fear of the vastness of eternity."
André Gide
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"Fear is very useful. It teaches us caution."
Voltaire
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"Fear is the greatest prison we construct for ourselves."
Albert Camus
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"Fear is the admission that something matters to us deeply."
Albert Camus
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"Anguish is the vertigo of freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Despair is the acknowledgment of total freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"To achieve success, one must first overcome the fear of failure."
Montesquieu
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"What we fear most often controls us."
Denis Diderot
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"Fear is the instrument by which the powerful maintain control."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Fear is the prison we construct within our own minds."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Fear is the counselor of fools."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Fear paralyzes the unprepared."
Pierre Corneille
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Pierre Corneille
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"Fear is the mind's greatest enemy."
Jean Racine
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"What we fear most often controls us."
Jean Racine
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"Fear is the wall between ourselves and our dreams."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Fear is the primary tool of those who would rule over free minds."
Denis Diderot
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"Fear is only powerful when we surrender to it."
Pierre Corneille
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"The greatest weakness of all is to fear the shadow of one's own imagination."
Molière
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"Fear is the shadow cast by ignorance; knowledge is the light that dispels it."
Jean Racine
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"Fear is the door to courage"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Fear teaches us what we value most"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Fear is the mind killer of possibilities."
Paul Verlaine
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"Fear dissipates when faced with courage."
Paul Verlaine
"Every man has known the torment of a great and sudden fear."
Charles Baudelaire
"The world fears what it cannot understand, and understands little."
Charles Baudelaire
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"The soul grows through confronting its deepest fears."
Pierre Corneille