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Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.Collection: Fear
To begin with, I don't have any stage frightCollection: Fear
The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.Collection: Fear
You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.Collection: Fear
Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.Collection: Fear
That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.Collection: Fear
Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.Collection: Fear
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.Collection: Fear
Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.Collection: Fear
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.Collection: Fear
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?Collection: Fear
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.Collection: Fear
The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.Collection: Fear
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.Collection: Fear
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...Collection: Fear
If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-Collection: Fear
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.Collection: Fear
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.Collection: Fear
They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.Collection: Fear
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.Collection: Fear
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.Collection: Fear
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.Collection: Fear
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.Collection: Fear
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.Collection: Fear
Each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.Collection: Fear
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.Collection: Fear
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.Collection: Fear
It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.Collection: Fear
The only thing to fear is fearlessness.Collection: Fear
The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.Collection: Fear
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.Collection: Fear
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.Collection: Fear
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.Collection: Fear
There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.Collection: Fear
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.Collection: Fear
Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.Collection: Fear
Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.Collection: Fear
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.Collection: Fear
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.Collection: Fear
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.Collection: Fear
The other side of every fear is a freedom.Collection: Fear
Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.Collection: Fear
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?Collection: Fear
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.Collection: Fear
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?Collection: Fear
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.Collection: Fear
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Collection: Fear