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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"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me!"
Winston Smith
O
"Torture is for learning, not for punishment."
O'Brien
W
"Rats, he thought, or maggots, or worms?"
Winston Smith
C
"They're out there."
Chief Bromden
C
"The Combine is after me."
Chief Bromden
B
"You're killing me."
Billy Bibbit
S
"An' they chased him 'n' they beat him."
Scout Finch
S
"She was still on the bed, still looking straight ahead."
Scout Finch
S
"The courthouse seemed to loom bigger each time I saw it."
Scout Finch
G
"Fear conquers the weak, but courage lies in acting despite our fear."
General Kutuzov
O
"You are a flaw in the pattern. You are a stain that must be wiped out."
O'Brien
J
"They can't invent anything that would surprise me anymore."
Julia
P
"Fear is the greatest enemy of truth."
Pierre Bezukhov
Y
"The only things growing in the ward were my nightmares."
Yossarian
Y
"Someone is trying to kill me."
Yossarian
W
"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I'll do anything, anything!"
Winston Smith
Y
"He was going to be killed by a lunatic."
Yossarian
C
"Fear's a tool they use to keep you down."
Chief Bromden
S
"I maintain that the Ewells startled me, no more."
Scout Finch
C
"The Combine is real. It's out there"
Chief Bromden
A
"Fear prevents us from becoming who we are meant to be."
Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
I
"I feel as though I were in a madhouse and sometimes, indeed, I think I am mad myself"
Ivan Karamazov
P
"Fear is the greatest enemy of freedom and progress"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
W
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in"
Winston Smith
J
"I'm afraid of beauty. And I'm afraid of you."
John the Savage
C
"Everything the Combine controls is a trap."
Chief Bromden
C
"Nobody wants to start a revolution around here."
Chief Bromden
C
"The ward is designed to break you down."
Chief Bromden
W
"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia!"
Winston Smith
O
"They shoot horses, don't they? So they will shoot you, Winston."
O'Brien