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title: "19 Desire Fear Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Desire Fear quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Desire Fear sayings and thoughts."
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> [It's important to only think about what you desire, not what you fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doreen-virtue/it-s-important-to-only-think-about-what-you-desire-not-what-you-fear/)

[Doreen Virtue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doreen-virtue/)

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> [“Whatwe fear we also desire, and what we desire we fear.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/whatwe-fear-we-also-desire-and-what-we-desire-we-fear/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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> [He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blake/he-who-has-few-things-to-desire-cannot-have-many-to-fear/)

[William Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blake/)

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> [Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-robbins/life-is-the-dance-between-what-you-desire-most-and-what-you-fear-most/)

[Tony Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-robbins/)

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> [Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-tracy/everything-you-do-is-triggered-by-an-emotion-of-either-desire-or-fear/)

[Brian Tracy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-tracy/)

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> [If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/if-there-is-nothing-left-to-desire-there-is-everything-to-fear-an/)

[Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/)

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> [“There are, aren't there, only three things that we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/there-are-aren-t-there-only-three-things-that-we-can-do-about-death/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/joy-grief-desire-or-fear-whate-er-the-name-the-passion-bears-its/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [“I moaned in frustration, trapped between desire and fear. “God, Roth.” “In your life, at this time, those two words could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasinda-wilder/i-moaned-in-frustration-trapped-between-desire-and-fear-god-roth-in/)

[Jasinda Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasinda-wilder/)

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> [“But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandre-dumas/but-the-kings-of-modern-times-restrained-by-the-limits-of-mere/)

[Alexandre Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandre-dumas/)

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> [I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-benioff/i-always-tell-people-life-is-the-dance-between-what-you-desire-most/)

[Marc Benioff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-benioff/)

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> [Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-levine/clearly-all-fear-has-an-element-of-resistance-and-a-leaning-away-from/)

[Stephen Levine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-levine/)

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> [When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-no-longer-are-compelled-by-desire-and-fear-when-you-have/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [“Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-paterniti/only-occasionally-can-you-glimpse-through-the-embrasures-of-an/)

[Michael Paterniti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-paterniti/)

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> [“His eyes darted over the surface of my face. Like a moth to a blaze he was hesitant, seeming to crave my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-kirsten-maravel/his-eyes-darted-over-the-surface-of-my-face-like-a-moth-to-a-blaze-he/)

[Shawn Kirsten Maravel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-kirsten-maravel/)

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> [Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/most-people-s-lives-are-run-by-desire-and-fear-desire-is-the-need-to/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/having-wandered-some-distance-among-gloomy-rocks-i-came-to-the/)

[Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/)

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> [I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/i-am-dead-already-physical-death-will-make-no-difference-in-my-case-i/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

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> [Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/neither-fear-nor-self-interest-can-convert-the-soul-they-may-change/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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