Fear Quotes - Page 38

• DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Generosity, Support, Position

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.53, University of Georgia Press

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• Fear that makes faith may break faith.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  May, Break

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.52

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• Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

  Alexander Pope

  Land, Understanding, Aids

  Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). “An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.48

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• I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

  Dennis Potter

  Travel, Airports, Saws

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• During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, Authority And Power

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

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• I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Powerful, Real, Mean

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• The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Faces

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• Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

  Sophocles

  Men, Oedipus, Epic Poems

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Life, Ignorance, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.637, Penguin

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• Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

  John Cheever

  Knives, Worry, House

  TheWapshot Chronicle ch. 36 (1957)

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• Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Two, Listening, Stuff

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• An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

  Adam Schiff

  America, Inspire, Awe

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• I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

  Andrew Solomon

  Strong, Believe, Life Is Good

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

  Judy Collins

  Patience, Children, Eye

  Judy Collins (1989). “Trust Your Heart”, Fawcett

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• One hates what one fears.

  Marilyn Manson

  Atheist, Hate

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• Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

  Erik Larson

  Dream, Sleep, Home

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• The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Character, Fire

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Fear can give you urgent wings.

  Margaret Mahy

  Wings, Giving, Urgent

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• Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

  Tim LaHaye

  Destiny, People, Emotion

  Tim LaHaye (2014). “Spirit-Controlled Temperament”, p.149, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

  A. A. Milne

  Action, Fortune

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• Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.

  Geneen Roth

  Knowing Who You Are, Drug, Feelings

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Hurt, Past, Thinking

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• I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

  Alex Flinn

  Inspirational, Love You, Laughing

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• Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry.  Fear never saved a marriage or a business.  Courage did that.  Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that.  But fear itself?  Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors.  Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Faith, Country

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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