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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.
Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.
Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.
You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.
It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.