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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"I do not fear death so much as I fear the living."
Pi Patel
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"I was afraid of Assef and what he might do. But mostly I was afraid of looking at Hassan"
Amir
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"Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back"
Squealer
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"Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones back"
Squealer
L
"You've got a lot of people looking for you."
Llewelyn Moss
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"I have to say a word about fear. It is life's only ugliness."
Pi Patel
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"I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else."
Huckleberry Finn
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"You're looking at a man that might not even be looking back at you."
Llewelyn Moss
S
"I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand."
Sheriff Bell
S
"The night is dark and full of terrors."
Sheriff Bell
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"This man's a ghost."
Carson Wells
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"Comrades, we must be vigilant against traitors."
Napoleon
C
"There's worse things than being dead."
Carson Wells
S
"The darkness gets inside you."
Sheriff Bell
C
"What is it mean when you feel like you falling? And you don't know how to stop?"
Celie
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"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."
Pi Patel
L
"I don't know what I'm doing here"
Llewelyn Moss
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"I didn't know where to start"
Llewelyn Moss
R
"You can never leave me. I will find you even if you go to the ends of the earth."
Rasheed
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"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."
Pi Patel
C
"You better hush now, cause somebody might hear you."
Celie
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"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."
Pi Patel
J
"I feel like the word shatter."
Janine
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"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."
Offred
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"I don't know what's greater: the fear or the anger."
Offred
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"Fear is the jailer of the soul."
Laila
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"I learned to suppress my fear, to channel it."
Pi Patel
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"It was not safe, to say or even think such things."
Offred
O
"I'm terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."
Offred
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"I had to overcome an urge to run, to hide, to escape this moment and this place."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)