Fearful Quotes

430 Fearful quotes by 360 unique authors

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit… — Ray Bradbury
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. — Unknown Author
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.… — Paulo Coelho
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered… — Hermann Hesse
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve. — Edmund Hillary
I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I… — Lance Armstrong
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being… — Alan Watts
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation. — James A. Baldwin
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching… — Alan Paton
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like… — Caroline Knapp
What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal… — Donald Woods Winnicott
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved,… — Bernard Beckett
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous,… — Joan Baez
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen

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