Fear Quotes

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

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"Fear is the teacher of the brave."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Fear is the root of all hatred."
Henrik Ibsen
"Fear is only as powerful as we allow it to be."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Fear is the shadow cast by our own disbelief."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Fear dissolves in the light of understanding."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"If we are not afraid of God, we are not afraid of anything else in this world."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Fear is the tool of tyrants."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Fear is often the greatest barrier to success"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Sin is despair, and despair is sin, and they feed each other endlessly."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Fear is the only real curse. Everything else is just shadow."
August Strindberg
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"Fear often masquerades as prudence, keeping us from our destiny."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Fear is the mind's attempt to control the future."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Fear is the mind killer."
Boris Pasternak
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"Fear is nothing but false expectations appearing real."
Boris Pasternak
"Fear is the doorkeeper guarding our greatest growth."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Fear is the tool of tyrants and the refuge of cowards."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Fear is the teacher that shows us where we must grow."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"What we fear most often teaches us what we must become."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Fear is the tax we pay on unlived futures."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"An enemy who is generous is more to be feared than a whole army of the malicious."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Fear is the mind's way of protecting us from possibilities we have not yet learned to face."
Boris Pasternak
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"I am afraid of only one thing—the passage of time."
Anna Akhmatova
"Fear is the mind's way of protecting itself from the unknown."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Fear is the prison of the mind."
Maxim Gorky
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"Fear is the opposite of love."
Maxim Gorky
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"Fear is not the opposite of courage—ignorance is."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The fear of death is often greater than death itself."
August Strindberg
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"Fear is the greatest obstacle to freedom."
Henrik Ibsen