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Quotes About Fear

Why is it that you live in such a safe place yet consider the world so dangerous?" "I'm an American.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Why is it that you live in such a place yet consider the world so dangerous?" "I'm an American.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Every Beiruti of a certain age has learned that on leaving for a walk you should never be too sure of returning home, not only because something might happen to you personally, but also because your home might cease to exist.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could wish away, I had the same fantasy when you were sick, Doc, that I would one day wake up and you all would be healthy and alive.
~ Rabih Alameddine
You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving you piecemeal, your soul no longer fit your body, you hated it and I hated it and I couldn't recognize you and I couldn't see you and I was frightened and I never knew what to do, I looked for the man I love in you and I searched for who I used to be around you and I couldn't find either.
~ Rabih Alameddine
and Satan said, This is not possession, if it were, you would do what I tell you and not refuse my counsel, for I am no creature of mere light, I am of fire born, fire of fire, the blood in the veins of the world is lit up by my flame, I am life's primal force, you are the child at the end of the diving board afraid to jump into the pool...
~ Rabih Alameddine
Those who own much have much to fear.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Biarlah saya berdoa, bukan untuk dilindungi dari kejahatan, tetapi agar berani menghadapinya.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Ah! How we all love to be deluded! We have a secret dread of being thought ignorant. And we end by being ignorant after all, only we have done it in a long and roundabout way.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Death, thy servant, is at my door. He has crossed the unknown sea and brought thy call to my home. The night is dark and my heart is fearful---yet I will take up the lamp, open my gates and bow to him my welcome. It is thy messenger who stands at my door. I will worship him placing at his feet the treasure of my heart. He will go back with his errand done, leaving a dark shadow on my morning; and in my desolate home only my forlorn self will remain as my last offering to thee.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
he feared that the flame of a prayer lamp that illuminated the home could also set the house on fire.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He
~ Rabindranath Tagore
our atmosphere breeds fear just as it breeds malaria
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I came out alone on my way to my tryst. But who is this that follows me in the silent dark? I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not. He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I live in this little world of mine and am afraid to make it the least less. Lift me into thy world and let me have the freedom gladly to lose my all.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
greed of material prosperity, and consequent mutual jealousy, and by the fear of each other's growth into powerfulness.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Prens elbiseleriyle süslenen ve boynuna k?ymetli gerdanl?klar tak?lan çocuk oyundaki bütün neÅŸ'esini kaybeder. Onu y?rtmak veya tozland?rmak korkusuyla kendini dünyadan çeker ve hatta harekete geçmeye bile cesaret edemez.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
But our fear is, that the poison may be more powerful than the food, and what is strength in her to-day may not be the sign of health, but the contrary; for it may be temporarily caused by the upsetting of the balance of life. Our fear is that evil has a fateful fascination, when it assumes dimensions which are colossal,—and though at last, it is sure to lose its centre of gravity, by its abnormal disproportion, the mischief which it creates before its fall may be beyond reparation.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
solve the old murder, she will lose not only her chance at love but may become the murderer's next victim.
~ Rachel Ann Nunes
The world can be a great big scary place, and finding a soul mate is no simple task. But if you're lucky enough to do just that, sometimes that's all that you need: one person to belong to—who also belongs to you.
~ Rachel C. Weingarten
You shouldn't be afraid of me because I'm a vampire. You ought to be scared because you just trash-talked my girlfriend to her face .--Michael
~ Rachel Caine
the most frightening experience of my professional life was not those hours spent under fire in Congo's killing fields but my first night on call in a UK teaching hospital.
~ Rachel Clarke