- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear Quotes
Fear fades fastest when it's named directly.
This collection pairs personal courage with public conviction - resolve around national security, wariness of concentrated institutional power, and the belief that a government secure in itself should welcome, not dread, criticism. Related reading in Fearless Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
- Appetites
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to say what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, and without fear of what others will say or think, and that's how I've always lived. Sometimes, this has ended up hurting me, and other times, it has helped me, but I think you can never forget who you are, and I've always been myself, and that one of the things I'm most proud of.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.
- Corridor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, with portrayals of domestic violence, the women involved are just victims with no personality, just completely trodden-down. But people continue to live their normal lives: they go out; they continue to have arguments with their partners, even if there is always the fear of where that might end up.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020