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Quotes About Fear

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is always danger for those who are afraid.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
~ George Bernard Shaw
La libertad supone responsabilidad. Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is this consideration of other people or rather this cowardly fear of them which we call consideration that makes us the sentimental slaves we are. To consider you, as you call it, is to substitute your will for my own. How if it be a baser will than mine?
~ George Bernard Shaw
Dont be afraid: she never comes to words with anyone now, poor woman! respectability has broke all the spirit out of her.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
~ George Bernard Shaw
men never really overcome fear until they imagine they are fighting to further a universal purpose—fighting for an idea, as they call it. Why was the Crusader braver than the pirate? Because he fought, not for himself, but for the Cross.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Membenci adalah pembalasan orang pengecut yang diintimidasi.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Biz iki h?rs?z aras?nda kendimizi ifade ederiz. Düne ait üzüntüler ve yar?na ait korkular.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Gotta have my make up, in case I run into Joey and he wants to beat the shit out of me. Gotta look my best! Maybe he'll punch me repeatedly in the kidneys and the stomach so it doesn't mark up my face. He's so thoughtful!
~ George Carlin
No art is possible without a dance with death.
~ George Carlin.
Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.
~ George Effinger
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
~ George Eliot
Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?
~ George Eliot
I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so many in my life who made themselves glad with scorning, and laughed at another's shame. What could I do? This life seemed to be closing in upon me with a wall of fire—everywhere there was scorching that made me shrink. The high sunlight made me shrink. And I began to think that my despair was the voice of God telling me to die.
~ George Eliot
Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating.
~ George Eliot
Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come...
~ George Eliot
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
~ George Eliot
the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
~ George Eliot