Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Fear

• Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

• Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  The Devil's Dictionary

• Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Dwelling, Savages

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.36, 谷月社

• The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Inward, Spirituality

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.76, 谷月社

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Generosity, Support

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

• Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Worship, Folly

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.108, University of Georgia Press

• Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Brain, Idiot

  Ambrose Bierce (1984). “The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce”, p.142, U of Nebraska Press

• I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Heart, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.177, Univ. of Tennessee Press

You May Also Like:

Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Twain

Stephen Crane

Algernon Blackwood

H. P. Lovecraft

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Arthur Machen