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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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fear Quotes

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fear Quotes , Giving Quotes

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Mother Quotes , Fear Quotes

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Fear Quotes , Order Quotes

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Fear Quotes , Criminals Quotes

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fear Quotes , Inevitable Death 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

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Fear Quotes , Light Quotes

Fear is a great instructor.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fear Quotes

... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Children Quotes , Fear Quotes

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

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

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life And Love Quotes , Fear Quotes

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Fear Quotes

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fear Quotes , Heart Quotes

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fear Quotes , Pride Quotes