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Fear Quotes
"Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity."
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"Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear."
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"The day your heart fills only with fear and insecurities, everything you see becomes the ghost that you were always scared of."
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"All of a sudden, images from every crime movie I'd ever seen began to pop into my mind-the windowless room, the harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived."
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"Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally."
Fear,
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"The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear."
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"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."
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"I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify."
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"One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end."
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"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
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"There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range."
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"When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer."
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"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."
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"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
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"He locked the doors and windows and sat in the middle of a room afraid of going out there in the storm and rain, in the darkest night he had ever seen. All of a sudden there were knocks everywhere and the walls turned into the glass so that he could helplessly witness his fears approach him like the ghosts. He saw them crawling on the wall and climbing the roof staring into his eyes, in no time the walls disappeared and they stood around him laughing and consuming him one by one at a time. all he saw, in the end, was the ugly and scary faces of himself."
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"Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it."
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"The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors."
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"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
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"Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks."
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"I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us-Christians, Muslims, atheists-lived in this fear of this truth."
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"Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind."
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"Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them."
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"The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake."
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"There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
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"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
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"Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that."
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