Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Quotes about Fear -- Fear
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Quotes about Fear
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear . . . when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better. --Georges Bataille
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent- unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it- we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude. --
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? --Joseph Conrad
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. --Arthur Hugh Clough
My fear . . . is my substance, and probably the best part of me. --
People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. --Richard M. Nixon
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