Fear Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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There is nothing I fear more than fear itself.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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The most dangerous human masses are those in whose veins the poison of fear has been injected... the fear of change.

Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós

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Fear is the form of our subordination to the physical laws.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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It is better to pardon someone who is dying of fear than someone who kills out of fear: because in the former, nature acts without fault; while in the latter, with wrongdoing and fault, the timid and base intellect is at work.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Executioners are always recognizable. They have a fearful face.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Everyone is afraid, everyone. Those who are not are not normal; this has nothing to do with courage.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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Maybe everyone is afraid of each other in this damned world.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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Among those who are equally bad, there is no peace except that which is imposed by the fear of someone worse.

André Gide

André Gide

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There are very few monsters that guarantee the fears we have of them.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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Love drives away fear, and reciprocally, fear drives away love. And not only does fear expel love; it also expels intelligence, kindness, every thought of beauty and truth, leaving only mute despair. In the end, fear even expels humanity itself from man.