Greatest Fear Quotes - Page 6

• At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Gone, Firsts, No Sleep

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Imagination, Our Greatest Fear

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• To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Beautiful, Novelists, Would Be

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• Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Dog, Humor

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, Men, Views

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.540, Simon and Schuster

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• For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

  Marcel Proust

  Able, Limits, Firsts

  Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

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• My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Book

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• To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

  Timothy Keller

  Relationship, Marriage, Commitment

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

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