Fear Quotes

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

16356 quotes

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