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“So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.”
“I wasn’t about to tell him that I never said anything to anyone who teased me. I just went along with it like it was my joke too. I wanted everyone to like me…”
“Fear ain't respect—how could I have ever thought it was?”
“He fell into a solemn silence, which he only eventually broke to say, “I think I’ve become a terrible person. In fact, I’ve become a reptile. Do you know that reptiles are stupid because almost the...”
“I do hate him. But I also love him. In the end, aren’t they the very same thing? Don’t they both take a back seat to what you fear?”
“If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.”
“But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.”
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”
“We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.”
“You have dwelt overmuch upon pain. Pain is a swift distress; it ends and is forgotten. Without memory and fear pain is nothing, a contradiction to be heeded, a warning to be taken. Without pain wha...”
“We help boost the devil’s ego whenever we exhibit that toxic act called FEAR.”
“Do not let me hearOf the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.”
“The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.”
“When one remains ‘sincere’, no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!”
“Fearing the night won’t keep the sun from setting.”
“I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid.”
“I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.”
“Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.”
“Mamá had always made it clear she believed girls who got raped deserved it. I hadn't done any of the things she said “bad” girls did, though. I didn't parade myself around in sluttish clothes and m...”
“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”
