Fear Quote by Thomas Browne

“I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.”

Thomas Browne

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Fear Hours Life Past Should Wells

More by Thomas Browne

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Thomas Browne

Image

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Thomas Browne

Image

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their…

Thomas Browne

Image

“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint…

Thomas Browne

Image

“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be…

Thomas Browne

Image

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

Thomas Browne

Image

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in…

Thomas Browne

Image

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

Thomas Browne

Image

“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for…

Thomas Browne

Image

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Thomas Browne

Image

Lord deliver me from myself.

Thomas Browne

Image

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

Thomas Browne

Image

Explore all 192 Thomas Browne quotes

More Fear quotes

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

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

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

Image

What an incredible drug fear is.

Anne Lamott

Image

“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.”

Nagisa Tatsumi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Browse all 34,638 Fear quotes

Fear Quote by Thomas Browne

Related quotes

More by Thomas Browne

More Fear quotes