fear Quotes

“Happiness . . . must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“dying's none so dreadful; it's the funking makes it bad.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

― Plato, The Republic

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“If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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“The contagion of such a unanimous fear was inevitable.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing....”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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