Fear Quotes - Page 39

• Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Angel, Fool, Altars

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.73

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• Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Heaven

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• I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Witty, Women, Memorable

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• The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

  Saul Alinsky

  People, Confusion, Experience

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wind, Giving, Confusion

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Grave By The Lake”

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• We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

  Sean Connery

  Love, Dream, Joy

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• Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Body, Fear Nothing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.87, Penguin

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• Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.

  Walter Russell

  Thinking, Light, Perfection

  "The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe". Book by Glenn Clark, 1946.

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• It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Perfection, Shields

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.380, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Anticipation, Mental Health

  See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Wellington 3

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• Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

  John Moulder Wilson

  Death, Men, Shadow

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• Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dark, Night, Television

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.169, Verso

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• Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  Thinking, Relaxation, Needs

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• Fear cannot touch me…
  It can only taunt me,
  It cannot take me,
  Just tell me where to go…
  I can either follow,
  Or stay in my bed…
  I can hold on
  To the things that I know…
  The dead stay dead,
  They cannot walk.
  The shadows are darkness.
  And darkness cannot talk

  Christopher Rice

  Darkness, Shadow, Bed

  Christopher Rice (2001). “A Density of Souls”, Miramax

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• Awe and respect are two different things.

  Oliver Reed

  Respect, Two, Different

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• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  Jack Lemmon

  Failure, Fear Of Failure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

  Nat King Cole

  Hurt, Pigs, Guinea

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• A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

  Shirley Manson

  Fancy Cars, People, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

  Clara Bow

  Kids, Awful, I Can

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• I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

  Gary Cole

  Real, Apocalypse, Grew Up

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• Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

  Keith Ablow

  People, Tragedy, Danger

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• Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

  Eileen Wilks

  Needs, Jam, Traffic

  Eileen Wilks (2011). “Death Magic”, p.25, Penguin

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