Fear Quotes

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

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"My pulse stops; my heart stands still; my stretched arm is paralysed."
Jane Eyre
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"I feel as though I should run away."
Jane Eyre
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"Fear of the unknown often prevents us from becoming who we might be."
Pip
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"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"
Pearl
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"Evil has been my nature; shall I not have cause to fear that evil will be my destiny?"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I am all wickedness up to my ears in sin."
Dorian Gray
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"It is the whiteness of the whale that appals me."
Ishmael
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"My father was a drunkard and a coward."
Magwitch
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"He was a secret burden on my mind."
Pip
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"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest?"
Pearl
P
"Come away, or yonder old man will catch you!"
Pearl
J
"I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me."
Jane Eyre
J
"There are shadows on this road, and they are thickening"
Jarvis Lorry
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"It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me."
Ishmael
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"One might have thought the lad was possessed of something diabolical at that period"
Nelly Dean
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"That's the curse of my existence"
Heathcliff
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"My heart was beating violently"
Pip
P
"My very breath seemed to turn into constraint"
Pip
I
"It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me."
Ishmael
J
"My pulse stops: my heart stands still; my stretched arm is paralyzed."
Jane Eyre
P
"The dread of being misunderstood outweighed my duty."
Pip
P
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts this forest round about us?"
Pearl
P
"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!"
Pearl
A
"Distrust thyself! I had almost said, 'Despair thyself!'"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"There is a power I feel which crushes my worth."
Jane Eyre
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"I feel the horror of the half-known life."
Ishmael
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"The shadow of the guillotine fell across the city like a dark prophecy."
The Narrator
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"I am the night; I am the darkness that surrounds you."
Javert
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"The secret of existence is to have no fear."
Monte Cristo
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"The whiteness of the whale haunted me forever"
Ishmael