Fear Quotes

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

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"Fear whispers that we are not enough; courage replies that we are."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on scheming to save their lives when that scheming loses them."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Fear is the enemy of truth."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Fear is the prison of the soul."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A man who fears nothing has nothing to lose."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Fear is the price of caring about anything."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."
James Joyce
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"His heart sank within him coldly."
James Joyce
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"Fear is the shadow of imagination."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The fear of death is the greatest fear of all."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Death is the only thing that men fear more than lying."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The fear of death often proves greater than death itself."
Anton Chekhov
"Fear is just a feeling, not a fact."
Samuel Beckett
"Fear is a choice, not a condition."
Samuel Beckett
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"Fear is the enemy of progress; courage is its greatest ally."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Fear is the greatest obstacle to truth."
James Joyce
"I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm frightened of them."
Samuel Beckett
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"If you fear something, that means it has power over you."
Anton Chekhov
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"Fear is the mind-killer."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The mind that fears itself most is often the mind with the greatest potential."
William Butler Yeats
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"Fear comes from within; courage comes from beyond."
Thomas Hardy
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"Fear is just an illusion we create."
Thomas Hardy
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"Do not fear what you cannot control."
Thomas Hardy
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"I have a terrible fear that I am dying. I'm afraid I'm going to die."
Oscar Wilde
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"Fear is the greatest enemy of human potential."
James Joyce
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"To be alive is the biggest fear humans have."
Leo Tolstoy
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"There is nothing to fear except fear itself becoming real."
Thomas Hardy
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"Fear is often our greatest enemy."
Anne Brontë
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"A man who is not afraid is not normal. He is abnormal or he is asleep."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."
James Joyce