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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. -- Thomas Pynchon
No. He's the personification of human fear. (Leta) Oh, goody. Just what I wanted to add to my dream. Should we invite him over for tea? (Aiden) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. -- Dorothy Thompson
I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten. -- Victor Salva
Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. -- Dag Hammarskjold
As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark. -- Jeff Dunham
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. -- David Mallet
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. -- Nick Harkaway
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. -- Jimmy Carter
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. -- Chauncey Wright
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. -- Brian Weiss
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. -- Andrew Weil
Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance. -- Pope Theodoros II
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. -- Eckhart Tolle
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do. -- Bear Grylls
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. -- Michael Leunig
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! -- Anthony de Mello
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. -- Shirin Ebadi
We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear. -- Bernard Werber
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. -- Laurence D. Fink
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Fear clogged human potential. -- Toba Beta
Fear is the great barrier to human growth. -- Robert Monroe
Fear is the foundation of all human limitations. -- Benny Urquidez
Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness? -- Louis Mackey
Fear is the ghost of ancient.It consumes faithless human. -- Toba Beta
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. -- Smiley Blanton
I long for another human face just as I fear it. -- Robin McKinley
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. -- Albert Einstein
Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential. -- Brian Tracy
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason. -- Mylene Farmer
The greatest cause of human financial struggle is the fear of losing money. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. -- William Graham Sumner
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. -- William Faulkner
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear. -- Cornel West
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. -- Dag Hammarskjold
That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more. -- Neil Abramson
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. -- William Shakespeare
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate. -- Jean Vanier
But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear. -- Paulo Coelho
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. -- Charles James
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. -- Jeremy Siegel
There's so much fear running our lives that we forget to be human when it really counts. -- Rodney Yee
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. -- Amit Abraham
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger. -- Rajmani Tigunait
An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen. -- Method Man
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear. -- Aldo Leopold
Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection. -- Napoleon Hill
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. -- Albert Einstein
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. -- Camille Paglia
It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss. -- Cass Sunstein
Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact. -- Napoleon Hill
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day -- Aung San
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. -- Boris Sidis
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. -- John Charles Polanyi
What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all. -- Allen W. Wood
I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity. -- Joy Harjo
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages. -- Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it. -- Andrew Pyper
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it. -- Andrew Pyper
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time. -- Marcus Aurelius
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. -- Pablo Casals
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle. -- Dorothy Thompson
I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom. -- Carl Jung
I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts. -- Caroline Myss
The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman. -- John Carpenter
The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience. -- Max Anders
[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear. -- Shirin Ebadi
Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people. -- Scott Adams
The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear. -- Muriel Box
If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage. -- Dana Gould
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. -- Robin Sharma
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance. -- Lewis B. Smedes
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy. -- Suzanne La Follette
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. -- Gary Zukav
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. -- Robin Sharma
The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love. -- Al Berto
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit. -- Thomas Paine
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. -- Siri Hustvedt
I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings. -- Bill Moyers
Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life? -- Mo Yan
One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love. -- Eknath Easwaran
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death? -- Epictetus
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink. -- Joseph Conrad
I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence. -- Zachary Cole Smith
To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage. -- Brendon Burchard
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. -- Bertrand Russell
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another. -- R. D. Laing

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