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> [The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/the-most-degrading-of-human-passions-is-the-fear-of-death-it-tears/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

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## More by Gertrude Bell

> [ Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from \[the Shias\] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/until-quite-recently-i-ve-been-wholly-cut-off-from-the-shias-because/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/it-s-so-nice-to-be-a-spoke-in-the-wheel-one-that-helps-to-turn-not/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/we-as-outsiders-can-t-differentiate-between-sunni-and-shi-ah-but/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [I will have no locked cupboards in my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/i-will-have-no-locked-cupboards-in-my-life/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/i-ve-been-busy-with-a-long-memorandum-about-the-whole-of-our-central/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/all-the-earth-is-seamed-with-roads-and-all-the-sea-is-furrowed-with/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/i-have-fallen-a-hopeless-victim-to-the-turk-he-is-the-most-charming/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/there-is-nothing-more-difficult-to-measure-than-the-value-of-visible/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/the-most-degrading-of-human-passions-is-the-fear-of-death-it-tears/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/to-wake-in-that-desert-dawn-was-like-waking-in-the-heart-of-an-opal/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/the-holy-men-sat-in-an-atmosphere-reeking-of-antiquity-so-thick-with/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

> [... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-bell/at-times-they-are-good-and-quiet-company-the-dead-they-will-not/)

[Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-bell/)

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