Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.
Chip HeathI am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
Rosie ThomasI am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals.
Rosie ThomasTags: fear death helplessness
Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business
Liam McCurryTags: fear business terrorism insurance
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
Alexandre DumasThe power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
bell hooksTags: fear love men relationships patriarchy
Sometimes that
which we fear
strengthens our
spirit and gives
us a splash
of hope.
Tags: fear strength hope spirit splash
But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
Tags: fear power diplomacy authority
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
Andrew VachssTags: fear
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
George EliotTags: fear
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