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This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind. -- Lauren Oliver
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust. -- Georges Bernanos
When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure. -- Francis Quarles
True nobility is exempt from fear. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To good and true love fear is forever affixed. -- Francois Rabelais
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. -- Paul Sweeney
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. -- Viktor E. Frankl
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. -- Henri Nouwen
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear? -- Julia Ward Howe
People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. -- Richard M. Nixon
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. -- Edward Albert
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. -- Martha Beck
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway. -- Martin Freeman
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. -- Meryl Streep
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. -- Brian Weiss
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy. -- Henri Nouwen
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision. -- Tariq Ramadan
I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. -- Mattie Stepanek
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.' -- Nathan Myhrvold
True love can fear no one. -- Seneca the Younger
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed. -- Francois Rabelais
True joy is only hope put out of fear. -- Sir Fulke Greville
The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men. -- Lynn G. Robbins
It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. -- Yann Martel
True: fear is the beginning of wisdom, but love perfects it! -- Stefan Emunds
It is a true saying, that what you fear you find. -- Jeanette Winterson
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. -- Philip Sidney
One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear. -- Alan Cohen
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true. -- Patrick Swayze
The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it. -- Francesca Lia Block
True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell. -- Rabia Basri
Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear. -- Guy Finley
Dreams come true if we can overcome the fear of failure and pursue them. -- Debasish Mridha
A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility. -- Jessica Jung
To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true. -- Ayn Rand
Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you. -- Genevieve Behrend
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies. -- Kenny Werner
To fear is to lack courage; and to lack courage is to forsake your true abilities. -- Wayne Chirisa
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self. -- Mollie Marti
A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true. -- Robin Sharma
True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord. -- David Wilkerson
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force. -- Dorothy Day
Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities. -- Alyson Noel
Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12). -- John Bevere
Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all. -- Ricky Gervais
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. -- Alexander Payne
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. -- Yann Martel
If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential. -- Steve Rizzo
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love -- Jean Cocteau
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. -- Thomas Pynchon
No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. -- Chuck Palahniuk
To fear is to lack courage; and to lack courage is to forsake your true abilities.By: Wayne Chirisa -- Wayne Chirisa
Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia. -- Farah Evers
Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection. -- Susane Colasanti
Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly. -- Alan Cohen
When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born. -- William Hendriksen
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. -- Jack Kornfield
True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear. -- Iris Murdoch
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear? -- Elizabeth Bowen
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State. -- Edward Abbey
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. -- George Santayana
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. -- Arsenio Hall
True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need. -- Pope Francis
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender. -- Paulo Coelho
Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true. -- Miranda Hart
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear. -- James D. Robinson III
The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life. -- Robin Marantz Henig
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear. -- Maia Wojciechowska
It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity. -- Philip Massinger
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things -- Alex & Brett Harris
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear. -- Clarence Darrow
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. -- Dave Matthews
Fear is really the sin of unbelief.I am talking about fear coming from believing what we see over what God tells us is true. -- Jean A. Sturgill
My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory. -- Tea Obreht
I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true. -- Blaise Pascal
I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences -- Heather Nova
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens. -- Charles Kingsley
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear. -- Susan Polis Schutz
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm. -- David Hume
... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. -- Lucretius
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. -- Joan D. Chittister
Fashion is just something money can buy. People who are stylish are free and have no fear in staying true to themselves. Plus, style is infinitely more interesting. -- Marc Jacobs
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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