Fear Quote by Ezra Pound Download Open image ““Go in fear of abstractions.”” — Ezra Pound ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear
“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“You should only fear things that are beyond your control, but at the same time, you should never give up trying to understand them.” — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“That’s what people do when they’re afraid of something. They don’t try to understand it, work with it, adapt to it. They destroy it.” — Rachel DeFriez Copy Share Image
“First and foremost, we are not to be afraid. We are to banish every aspect of fear from our minds and not allow it… — Lisa Bevere Copy Share Image
“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If you think about it, fear is necessary for great things, impossible things.” — Eric Orton Copy Share Image
“Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.” — Violet Haberdasher Copy Share Image
“We fear what we don't understand, because when we come to understand what it is we fear, we are forced to except it and… — Keith Hampshire Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound 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
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
