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Quotes About Fear

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
~ Philip Sidney
Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.
~ Simon Van Booy
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.
~ Thomas Guthrie
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
~ Yann Martel
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.
~ Anthony Liccione
If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.
~ Pamela Eglinski
If hope is a feeling that can defeat fear, then at that time I walked uphill through a bed of snow, my tracks were of joyful determination.
~ Angelica Hopes
You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.
~ Matt Maher
I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.
~ Tahereh Mafi
When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.
~ Jo Ann Fore
I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.
~ Aesop
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
~ David Gemmell
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
~ Dean Koontz
Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.
~ Leoluca Orlando
Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
~ Rick Riordan
It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big
~ Kurt Vonnegut
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.
~ Frederick Lenz
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
~ Frederick Lenz