Quotes by Fear Fear in the world first created the gods. Statius fearworldfirsts In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets. Statius prophetdoubtfear Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears. Stedman Graham purpose-of-lifevisionfear God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours. Stanley Kubrick marinefearwar I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed. Stanley Kubrick tomorrowdyingfear All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal atheistfearreligion Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable. Stefan Zweig mirrorsimaginationfear Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away. Stefan Zweig strongfearlong you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. Stephen King cheer-upfearpositive Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. Stephen Jay Gould hopefearlying Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. Stephen King falling-in-lovefearhome Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock animal-intelligencemoneyfear Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby. Stephen M. Irwin girlfearbaby If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. Stephen King ifsfear Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29) Stephen Levine strongfeardesire They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark. Stephen King nicefeardark I tend to scare myself. Stephen King scarefear If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear. Stephenie Meyer designdoubtfear I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. Stephen King jakecuttingfear The people can be forced to fear, but not to love. Steve Berry fearpeople«111112113114115116117118119120121»
