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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"he could not abide the thoughts of committing himself to an irredeemable doom"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"The presence of the disease was more terrible than its absence."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I am almost afraid of becoming the jest of the village!"
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Every one is talking of me, watching me. How unbearable it is."
Raskolnikov
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"I was overcome by indescribable anguish."
Raskolnikov
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"I have become a slave to my own thoughts."
Raskolnikov
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"Fear is the father of despair."
Abbé Faria
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"He felt that he was not himself and was horrified at his situation."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"We suffer most in imagination than in reality."
Levin
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"Fear hath a hundred eyes."
Sancho Panza
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"Fear is the enemy of the brave heart."
Edmond Dantès
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"She felt that she was standing on the brink of something"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground."
Sancho Panza
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"A man who is not afraid is not truly alive."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"What harm can come to thee?"
Hester Prynne
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"I am not afraid of your wrath, I am afraid of something else"
Raskolnikov
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"The greatest torment is uncertainty of purpose"
Raskolnikov
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Don Quixote
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Sancho Panza
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"Infinity and the immensity overwhelm me."
Raskolnikov
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest"
Pearl
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"Come away or yonder old Black Man will catch you"
Hester Prynne
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"Fear is the greatest enemy of courage."
Don Quixote
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"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"
Pearl
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"Is he continually watching us?"
Pearl
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"Debt was the shadow that followed her every step."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Fear is born of ignorance"
Don Quixote
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"I feel as if I am asleep and dreaming all the time."
Raskolnikov
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"The fear of death is the beginning of wisdom."
Porfiry Petrovich