Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Richardson

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

Samuel Daniel

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Salvador Dali

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

W. G. Sebald

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

W. H. Auden

Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.

W. H. Auden

the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

Wayne Dyer

The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.

Wayne Dyer

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Tove Jansson

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

Uri Geller

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

William Golding

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

William Barclay

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Washington Irving

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Voltaire

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

Fear could never make virtue.

William Ernest Henley

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

William Stafford

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

William Butler Yeats

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

William Butler Yeats

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

Walter Russell

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Walter Russell

Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.

Walter Savage Landor

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Walter Scott

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Walter Scott

The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way; But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.

Walter Hill

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

William Morris

Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

Winston Churchill

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.