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All is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1866)In context
- Courage
Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 2In context
- Animals
As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 4In context
- Advice
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- God
- Love
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
Bret Easton Ellisborn 1964Less Than Zero (1985)
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Letter to Marx (4 September 1870)
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Étui de nacre: Le Procurateur de Judée [Mother of Pearl: The Procurator of Judea] (1892)
- Hope
Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Masque of Mercy (1947)
- Courage
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
André Gide1869–1951
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Female Eunuch (1970), Introduction
- Freedom
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
William Ernest Henley1849–1903Invictus (1875)In context
- Courage
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert1920–1986Dune (1965), the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
- Courage
Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
Herodotus484–425 BCThe Histories, Book 7, Ch. 50 (trans. George Rawlinson)
- Courage