top of page
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
Fear,
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Fear quotes

"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
Explore more quotes by Socrates

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."

"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."

"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."
bottom of page