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 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