fear Quotes

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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“that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

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“So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live according to nature.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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“Only fear can defeat life.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

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“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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