Fears Quotes
1771 quotes by 1223 authors
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Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a…
— Camille Paglia
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I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have…
— Roald Dahl
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I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates and I’m wondering, I don’t think I’ve changed, but it’s a little troubling sometimes…
— Jeb Bush
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the…
— Herbert Croly
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It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to…
— Sharon Salzberg
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We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
— William Shakespeare
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Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
— Alice Hegan Rice
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One hates what one fears.
— Marilyn Manson
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You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of…
— Richard Bandler
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A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.
— Thomas Brooks
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He who fears God has nothing else to fear.
— Charles Spurgeon
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To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new…
— J C Ryle
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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
— Jack Kornfield
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The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to…
— Jack Kornfield
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For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.
— Mark Dever
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That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing…
— Richard Russo
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The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.
— David Weber
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