Fear Quotes

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

16356 quotes

"Fear is the barrier between mediocrity and greatness."
Émile Zola
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"Fear is the enemy of progress and the friend of stagnation."
Honoré de Balzac
"Fear is the greatest obstacle to freedom."
William Wordsworth
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"Fear is the mind killer."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Face your fears and overcome them."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What we fear most often reveals what we truly value."
Mary Shelley
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"Fear grows in the darkness of ignorance; knowledge brings light."
Alexandre Dumas
"The future is the worst of all evils because it hasn't happened yet."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Fear is the shadow we cast upon ourselves."
Honoré de Balzac
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"We fear most what we do not understand; knowledge dispels fear."
Honoré de Balzac
"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
William Wordsworth
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"Fear is the mind's way of protecting what we love most."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Fear is the companion of ignorance."
Mary Shelley
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"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Victor Hugo
"It is the nature of a jealous monster."
Jane Austen
"The most dangerous men are those who are capable of everything."
Jane Austen
"Fear is the thief of dreams."
William Wordsworth
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"Fear is the mind's response to the unknown."
Lord Byron
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"Fear is the gateway to courage."
Lord Byron
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"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Fear is the enemy of progress and the ally of stagnation."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Fear teaches us what we value."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Darkness there and nothing more."
John Milton
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"The tyranny of fear."
John Milton
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"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster"
William Shakespeare
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"Fear is power surrendered to something else."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The greatest chains are those we forge for ourselves through fear."
John Milton
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"Fear is the mind's way of rehearsing failure."
John Milton
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"I have been in such a state of uncertainty that I could not see which way to turn."
John Keats
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"The greatest fear is the fear of being forgotten."
Lord Byron