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:IMPORTED: [2023-02-08 Wed 19:22]
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#+title: Famous and not-so-famous fear quotes
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#+filetags: humour public
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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
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"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)
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"What are fears but voices airy?
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Whispering harm where harm is not.
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And deluding the unwary
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Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
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----Wordsworth
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"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)
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"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
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Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
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Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
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Still losing when I saw myself to win!"
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----Will - Sonnets
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"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)
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"- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs."----Will - The Taming of the Shrew
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"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
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"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."----German Proverb
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."---- Francis Bacon
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."--- H.P. Lovecraft
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"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."----Coleridge
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"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
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"A man who has been in danger,
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When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
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And sometimes he forgets his promises."
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----Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)
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"He either fears his fate too much,
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Or his deserts are small,
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That puts it not unto the touch
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To win or lose it all"
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----James Graham - Marquis of Montrose
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"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
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The time has been my senses would have cool'd
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To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
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Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
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As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
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Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
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Cannot once start me."
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----Will - Macbeth
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"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."----Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)
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"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."----Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)
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"Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts."----Brigitte Bardot
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"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"----Trevor Kay
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"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."----Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)
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