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“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”
“She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.”
“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the thi...”
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond...”
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”
“Ill tell you now. That silence almost beat me. Its the silence that scares me. Its the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried t...”
“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live wi...”
“Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.”
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...”
“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”
“In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.”
“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
“When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.”
“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the...”
“Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.”
“Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I...”
“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
“Karrin."She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow."Remember what I said yesterday," I said. "You're hurt. But you'll get through it. You'll be okay."She closed her eyes tightly. "I'm scare...”
“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”
