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#+title: Famous and not-so-famous fear quotes
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."----FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

"One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love."----Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939)

"What are fears but voices airy?

Whispering harm where harm is not.

And deluding the unwary

Till the fatal bolt is shot!"

----Wordsworth

"Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love."----Frederick Knott - Max Halliday, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952)

"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,

Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,

Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,

Still losing when I saw myself to win!"

----Will - Sonnets

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."----Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)

"- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs."----Will - The Taming of the Shrew

"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speakingbefore a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."----Dave Barry

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."----German Proverb

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."---- Francis Bacon

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."--- H.P. Lovecraft

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."----Coleridge

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."---Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

"A man who has been in danger,

When he comes out of it forgets his fears,

And sometimes he forgets his promises."

----Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)

"He either fears his fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,

That puts it not unto the touch

To win or lose it all"

----James Graham - Marquis of Montrose

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.

The time has been my senses would have cool'd

To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair

Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir

As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;

Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,

Cannot once start me."

----Will - Macbeth

"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."----Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)

"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."----Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)

"Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts."----Brigitte Bardot

"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"----Trevor Kay

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."----Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)