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Fear Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
- Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
- It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
- We fear something before we hate it...
- Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
- As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
- There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
- The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
- The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
- The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
More Fear Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad