Fear Quotes
The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.
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"It was the whiteness that unmanned me"Ishmael
"The dread tribunal sits in judgment of us all."The Narrator
"Dost thou see yonder child? She is naturally cruel. I have often been terrified by her intelligence."Hester Prynne
"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!"Pearl
"We are surrounded by existential terror."Ishmael
"My soul was from my body then."Pip
"Fear is the mind's greatest jailer."Abbé Faria
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts this forest?"Pearl
"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath a book with him"Pearl
"I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it"Captain Ahab
"The great Whale himself was not more firmly rooted in the imagination"Ishmael
"I was frightened by the strangeness of the place."Pip
"Fear is the shadow of possibility."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"I was a coward. But I was also becoming something worse"Pip
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"Pearl
"Fear is often greater than the evil itself."Don Quixote
"Fear is the beginning of wisdom."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"The room was as carefully avoided by me as if it had been infected"Pip
"The fear of death is worse than death itself."Don Quixote
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"Pearl
"There is evil in this letter!"Pearl
"I am a coward and a craven! I will not uphold thee!"Arthur Dimmesdale
"Fear is the greatest obstacle to human progress."Pierre Bezukhov
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"Pearl
"Fear is the prison we build for ourselves."Alexei Vronsky
"Fear paralyzes the will and destroys the mind."Porfiry Petrovich
"He felt himself drowning in the sea of his own emotions."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"I feel something permanent and perhaps terrible in myself."Raskolnikov
"Fear is the enemy of reason."Edmond Dantès
"The fear that men have of death is often greater than death itself."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky