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Famous and not-so-famous fear quotes
"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)