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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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Fear Quotes , Anxiety Quotes

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

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

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

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fear Quotes

What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Fear Quotes , Voice Quotes

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Fear Quotes

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

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

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fear Quotes , Procrastination Quotes

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Fear Quotes , Parenting Quotes

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Inspirational 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

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

When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fear Quotes , War Quotes

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Fear Quotes , Attention Quotes

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Fear Quotes , Loss Quotes

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

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

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Fear Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Fear is the mother of morality.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Mother Quotes , Fear Quotes

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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