Fearful Quotes

430 Fearful quotes by 360 unique authors

I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me… — Elizabeth Gaskell
She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both… — Fanny Burney
She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so.… — David Levithan
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or… — Paulo Coelho
I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be… — Tammara Webber
And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that… — Jonathan Franzen
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life,"… — Paulo Freire
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection,… — Thomas Wolfe
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips… — Geoffrey Chaucer
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously… — Viktor E. Frankl
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one. — Ann Brashares
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid… — Paulo Coelho
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. — Victor Hugo
The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the… — Erin Morgenstern
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming,… — Alice Miller
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst… — Leo Tolstoy
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on. — Guy de Maupassant
Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with… — Tara Brach
There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop… — Roland Smith
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and… — Marguerite Yourcenar
When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this… — Jane Green
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. — Paulo Freire
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to… — Edward Abbey
When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true… — Fred Rogers

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