Best We Fear Lines
208 We Fear quotes by 168 unique authors
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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
— Gregory David Roberts
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If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess…
— Steven Pressfield
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Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
— Matthew J. Kirby
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No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.
— Sigrid Undset
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…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised.…
— Gail Carson Levine
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So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother…
— John Irving
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible…
— Epictetus
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing…
— Nikki Sixx
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The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing…
— Brené Brown
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But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be…
— Deborah Moggach
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The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent…
— David Levithan
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There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have…
— Learned Hand
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
— Seneca the Younger
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Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity…
— Keith Douglas
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
— Brian Tracy
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Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
— Margaret Atwood
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We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better…
— Alison Gopnik
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Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights,…
— Brendan Myers
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Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want…
— Radhanath Swami
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We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of…
— James Nesbitt
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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person…
— Aristotle
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