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- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
- Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Tamerlane, Part II
- Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
- Alan Paton (1903 - 1988), Cry the Beloved Country
- Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
- John Kerry (1943 - )
- There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), The Mill on the Floss, 1860
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