Adam Gopnik Quotes, Fear Quotes, Real Quotes

The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Fear Quotes , Lying Quotes

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fear Quotes , Psychology Quotes

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Love Quotes , Fear Quotes

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Fear Quotes

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Fear Quotes

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

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Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

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Tags : Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes , Courage Quotes , Fear Quotes

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fear Quotes

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Fear Quotes , Educational Quotes

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fear Quotes , Pits Quotes

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Fear Quotes

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fear Quotes , Halloween Quotes

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fear Quotes , Expression Quotes

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Fear Quotes , Heart Quotes

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Hope Quotes , Fear Quotes

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

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Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Fear Quotes , Men Quotes