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Image of P. D. James
Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.
- P. D. James
Collection: Fear
Image of John Irving
We invent what we love and what we fear.
- John Irving
Collection: Fear
Image of Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Fear
Image of Juvenal
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
- Juvenal
Collection: Fear
Image of Peter Jennings
Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
- Peter Jennings
Collection: Fear
Image of E. Stanley Jones
A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.
- E. Stanley Jones
Collection: Fear
Image of Joseph Joubert
Fear loves the idea of danger.
- Joseph Joubert
Collection: Fear
Image of Zora Neale Hurston
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Collection: Fear
Image of E. Stanley Jones
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.
- E. Stanley Jones
Collection: Fear
Image of Tove Jansson
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.
- Tove Jansson
Collection: Fear
Image of John Banville
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.
- John Banville
Collection: Fear
Image of D. H. Lawrence
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Fear
Image of Vivien Leigh
Every single night I'm nervous.
- Vivien Leigh
Collection: Fear
Image of Dean Koontz
She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.
- Dean Koontz
Collection: Fear
Image of Paul Klee
Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.
- Paul Klee
Collection: Fear
Image of C. S. Lewis
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Fear
Image of Louis L'Amour
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
- Louis L'Amour
Collection: Fear
Image of Satish Kumar
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.
- Satish Kumar
Collection: Fear
Image of Dean Koontz
To a predator, fear indicates weakness.
- Dean Koontz
Collection: Fear
Image of C. S. Lewis
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Fear
Image of Abraham Lincoln
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Fear
Image of Barbara Kingsolver
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Collection: Fear
Image of Stephen King
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
- Stephen King
Collection: Fear
Image of Dean Koontz
There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.
- Dean Koontz
Collection: Fear
Image of Dalai Lama
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
- Dalai Lama
Collection: Fear
Image of Honore de Balzac
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Fear
Image of Stephen King
Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear
- Stephen King
Collection: Fear
Image of C. S. Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Fear
Image of Stephen King
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
- Stephen King
Collection: Fear
Image of Dean Koontz
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
- Dean Koontz
Collection: Fear
Image of Dean Koontz
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
- Dean Koontz
Collection: Fear
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Fear
Image of C. S. Lewis
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Fear
Image of Livy
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
- Livy
Collection: Fear
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Fear
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Fear
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Fear
Image of Barbara Kingsolver
it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Collection: Fear
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Fear
Image of Stanley Kubrick
I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
- Stanley Kubrick
Collection: Fear
Image of Henry A. Kissinger
We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
- Henry A. Kissinger
Collection: Fear
Image of Anne Lamott
What an incredible drug fear is.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Fear
Image of Louis L'Amour
It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.
- Louis L'Amour
Collection: Fear
Image of Paul Krugman
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.
- Paul Krugman
Collection: Fear
Image of Stanislaw Lem
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
- Stanislaw Lem
Collection: Fear
Image of Stephen King
I tend to scare myself.
- Stephen King
Collection: Fear
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Fear
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Fear
Image of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Collection: Fear