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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice comin...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Reg...

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I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm af...

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I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I h...

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I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its m...

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I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be w...

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Sylvia PlathThe Journals of Sylvia Plath

Talking about my fears to others feeds it.

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectant...

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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Søren KierkegaardThe Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Do not let me hearOf the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,Their fear of fear and frenzy,...

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Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had n...

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The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, ...

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T. S. EliotThe Dry Salvages

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...

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He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe...

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The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri...

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Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectru...

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Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and ...

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The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears o...

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Ted HughesLetters of Ted Hughes

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see .....

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Laws of silence don’t work…. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of...

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We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we ...

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Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience g...

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I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of th...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, yo...

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A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and...

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YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit ...

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Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding e...

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A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, bec...

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses...

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...

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Better hazard once than always be in fear.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them parti...

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Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and incon...

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. ...

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselve...

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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with bol...

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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or w...

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Thomas JeffersonWritings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

... the logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle stat...

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The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible ...

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Thomas LigottiGrimscribe: His Lives and Works

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

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Thomas LigottiMy Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not e...

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Something statuesque is approaching her. It radiates a field of dynamic tension that grows more inte...

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

And any room that I enter may become a sideshow tent where I must take my place upon a rickety old b...

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There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of ...

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Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their ...

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Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to ...

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

All men have their FEARS. But those who face their fears with FAITH have COURAGE as well.

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of...

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With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

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Tim O'Brien (author)If I Die in a Combat Zone

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

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Tom ClancyThe Hunt for Red October

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with mag...

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We spea...

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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

She knew Paul D was adding something to her life—something she wanted to count on but was scared to....

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Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

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Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?

Then -- they saw the Groke. Everybody saw her. She sat motionless on the sandy path at the bottom of...

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

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Tove JanssonSculptor's Daughter

You were talking about the wind," the Fillyjonk said suddenly. "A wind that carries off your washing...

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Tove JanssonTales from Moominvalley

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the...

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Tove JanssonThe Summer Book

He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn't wa...

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My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolut...

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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't m...

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I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want ...

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The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does ...

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U. G. KrishnamurtiNo Way Out: Dialogues with Krishnamurti

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, ...

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I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country wel...

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