Fear Quotes VI

FEAR QUOTES VI

quotations about fear

Leaders who feed fear typically are also ones who avoid facts.

BARACK OBAMA

Newsweek, April 29, 2019

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Fear is the brother of hate.

LARRY NIVEN

Ringworld

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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Fear of the unknown translates to fear of losing control. In order to feel safe, we feel we must control every variable--human, environmental, technical. And yet, as life, this just isn't realistic. Controlling everything that's around the corner simply isn't possible.

IVY NAISTADT

Speak Without Fear

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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But the actual fact of inattention breeds fear; fear arises when there is an avoidance of the fact, a flight; then the very escape itself is fear.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

On Fear

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Fear hath a numerous progeny.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

JOHN STEINBECK

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.

STEFAN ZWEIG

The Post Office Girl

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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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The boundaries between fear and other emotions are not clear-cut. How does fear differ from dread, consternation or surprise? Anger, disgust, hatred and horror all contain elements of fear. Jealousy may be understood as fear of losing one's partner; guilt may be fear of God's punishment; shame may be fear of humiliation. I history of fear would be rendered meaningless if all negative emotional states were classified as 'really' being fear states.

JOANNA BOURKE

Fear: A Cultural History

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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

LEE CHILD

Echo Burning

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You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

MICK FARREN

Darklost

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All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

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Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Graveyard Book

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Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Inheritance

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Fear is a fantastic marketing tool.