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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

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Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4...

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Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.

Child, child, love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man; Never fear though it ...

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Never fear the thing you feel-- Only by love is life made real

I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time....

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Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or w...

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Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. I...

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I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

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After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little gir...

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What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongsid...

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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be s...

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Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. I...

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Seth GodinHow the Fierce Handle Fear: Secrets to Succeeding in Challenging Times

The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe....

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

The baby batScreamed out in fright,'Turn on the dark,I'm afraid of the light.

She had blue skin,And so did he.He kept it hidAnd so did she.They searched for blueTheir whole life ...

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Shel SilversteinEvery Thing on It

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on...

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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the ro...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The...

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I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a sit...

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Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable pat...

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a sit...

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Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable pat...

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a sit...

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Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable pat...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a sit...

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Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable pat...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk ...

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Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can pers...

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Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Bes...

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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...

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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of deat...

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The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start r...

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So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the ba...

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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, ...

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I tend to scare myself.

The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, ...

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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a cand...

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Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculia...

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Stephen King'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition

I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. ...

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FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

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Stephen KingDoctor Sleep

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come ba...

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Stephen KingHearts in Atlantis

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplac...

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You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child w...

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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with b...

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His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God hel...

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I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell ...

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Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very wel...

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Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

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Stephen KingWizard and Glass

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make ...

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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Nev...

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All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. ...

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We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheated, before blood...

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The nature of conspiracy, which among those who both feared and named it, seemed to always possess a...

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Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.

Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oeno...

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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.