Fearful Quotes

430 Fearful quotes by 360 unique authors

Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent… — Maggie Stiefvater
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process… — Edward R. Murrow
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. — Euripides
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;… — Tom Robbins
When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when… — Christopher Pike
The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find… — Nicholas Sparks
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to… — Jack D. Forbes
Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of… — Audrey Niffenegger
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and… — John Piper
Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway... — Taylor Swift
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they… — Brigham Young
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way… — Paulo Coelho
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's… — Paulo Coelho
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and… — Tom Clancy
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of… — William Carlos Williams
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. — Aristotle
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness… — Michel de Montaigne
And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject… — Christopher Hitchens
You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is… — Mark Twain
My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all. — Suzanne Collins
Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of… — Kazuo Ishiguro

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