Fear Quote by Derek Lin Download Open image ““Favor and disgrace make one fearful The greatest misfortune is the self”” — Derek Lin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear
“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Worst of all, your sense of self becomes a monument to someone else’s bad behavior” — Steven Stosny Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can’t help it.” — Joseph Frank Copy Share Image
“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and… — Derek Lin Copy Share Image
“Every dark cloud has a silver lining—conversely, the silver lining frames a dark cloud. Or as chapter 58 of Tao Te Ching expresses it:… — Derek Lin Copy Share Image
“Creation is a process where something seems to come out of nowhere. You are an example of this, because you exist right now, but… — Derek Lin Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image