Top 100 Feared Quotes
#1. I didn't want to be different.
I wanted to be able to laugh
But I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.
I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved ... and to love.
Frank Herbert
#2. The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children ... the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.
Ellen Glasgow
#3. Few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board.
David Baldacci
#4. And yet there were times when I felt my life full of such richness, such fullness, I couldn't express it, couldn't speak or breathe a word because I feared the disruption
even a single breath could ruin it, like wind over a pond. I didn't want even a ripple.
Lauren Oliver
#5. But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her performance fell short of perfection. They were less a mortification, she feared, than an actual statement of fact: B+ is all you deserve.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#6. Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
#7. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.
T.E. Lawrence
#9. Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force ... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.
Plutarch
#10. He so respected his wife, and at times so feared her, that he actually, in fact, loved her
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. The thing is, every Luxen feared Daemon's notorious temper. His brother was like a lit fuse, ready to explode at any minute, but what they didn't know was that it was another thing Dawson shared with Daemon. When push came to shove, and it involved someone he cared about, he could be just as mean.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#12. Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
Frank Herbert
#13. Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
David Perlmutter
#14. Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
Henry David Thoreau
#15. Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
K.J. Parker
#16. He has either strengthened your back to bear, or lightened your burden, or else opened an unexpected door of escape, according to promise (1 Corinthians 10:13), so that the evil which you feared did not come upon you.
John Flavel
#17. The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#18. Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
Annie Dillard
#19. The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.
Milan Kundera
#20. It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.
Victor J. Stenger
#21. It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli
Laurell K. Hamilton
#22. As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.
Diana Quick
#23. I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.
Filipp Golikov
#24. We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow
#25. Magnus wondered how long Alec was envisioning it would be until they found the baby a home. Alec must think that it would take a while, and Magnus feared Alec was right.
Cassandra Clare
#26. Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
Michael Scott
#27. Wives were always blamed for the death of their spouse, and it was believed that women could leave their sleeping bodies and do deadly deeds, and as a result, women were deeply feared.
Lily King
#28. Smiled so sweetly at Liam, I feared the poor sap might need insulin.
Cecy Robson
#29. The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
Bertrand Russell
#30. My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them - I really like them. They're quite my element.
Henry James
#31. The actual experience of the thing that was feared is a lot less scary than the person imagined.
Malcolm Gladwell
#32. With temerity and defiance, obstinance and patience, she chipped away at every hard edge of me until there was nothing left but the truths I feared. The bent and broken.
K. Bromberg
#33. He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
T.E. Lawrence
#35. Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#36. If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.
Loren Cunningham
#37. The Norse myths are the myths of a chilly place, with long, long winter nights and endless summer days, myths of a people who did not entirely trust or even like their gods, although they respected and feared them.
Neil Gaiman
#38. I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
Tea Leoni
#39. There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of.
Annie Ali
#40. Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
Christina Stead
#41. When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.
Josephine Baker
#42. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.
Childhood is a wilderness.
Aspen Matis
#43. Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
Benjamin Haydon
#44. A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#45. The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.
Harper Lee
#46. Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.
Stephen L. Richards
#47. From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#48. But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.
Philip K. Dick
#49. Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
Seneca The Younger
#50. Of all their enemies
the cold, the ice, the sea
he feared none more than demoralization.
Alfred Lansing
#51. Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.
Jim Butcher
#52. Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.
Susan Holloway Scott
#53. My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
Armistead Maupin
#54. It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when grief itself overtakes the one grieved. When they become one and the same, so that we fear grief's retreat as much as we feared the beloved's passing.
Jessica Mesman Griffith
#55. The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.
John Kramer
#56. Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
Dan Brown
#57. Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.
Phyllis Chesler
#59. a woman with a lover's impatience with the whole world, a woman who feared when she did not get what she wanted that it meant she was not loved by creation itself; her need for success at seduction was like her need for dinner or breakfast. When
Alexander Chee
#60. I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
#61. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines ... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
#62. [ ... ] Lilith turned on me with the same fury I had watched her unleash on that fat bastard on the TV and I seriously feared for my balls.
Tabitha McGowan
#63. When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
Alexander Hamilton
#64. He feared that if he merely hopped in, and out of bed with different women, using sex to find love, then he would become so confused in lust he'd forget what he had been looking for in the first place.
Felix Alexander
#65. When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics.
Michael Bloomberg
#66. She smiled. He'd joked once that he feared her gown might be contagious, but it was her smile that was catching. It caught him now. He felt hooked by it, no desire to do anything except smile back at her.
Courtney Milan
#67. there's nothing on Oya I fear. I am the thing that's feared, the stories humans tell their children to keep them in their beds. I'm what lurks in the dark. I'm what cracks branches in the night, slowly moving through the shadows on my way to my meal.
Aaron Burdett
#68. Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it ...
Dan Millman
#69. He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#70. I seldom ate out, both for reasons of economy and because I feared someone might try to speak to me.
Jordan L. Hawk
#71. She made struggle look beautiful; so much, even darkness feared her light
Nikki Rowe
#72. And yet I feared my father more than I feared my God
E.B. Hudspeth
#73. A gust of wind snatched at her hat. She jumped from the wall and her skirts blew everywhere. I couldn't avoid glimpsing more than she intended, and I feared that she might have been embarrassed. Instead she laughed and said, "You're seeing my true colors," and I was the one who blushed.
Frank Delaney
#74. He shouted and he heard his shout and he feared it and shouted back asking it to keep quiet but he didn't pay any head to his shout and shouted with renewed vigor. One shouts the shout one hears.
Aporva Kala
#75. What this good man had sworn to protect me from was not the same as what I feared. I trusted that he would never let anything hurt me, but he would never let anything touch me either.
Emma Donoghue
#76. Hell no. Absolutely not. I am a Skotos. We are to be feared. We never back down or run away from anything. Ever.
S.L. Jennings
#77. This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
Winifred Holtby
#79. The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
Laozi
#80. They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#81. We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.
Dave Barry
#82. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
#83. Normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach. Once normal had been a heavy, smothering blanket she feared being trapped beneath. But now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string.
Holly Black
#84. My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#85. Howie swore translated to "I am strong and mighty in the wind," but which Jazz feared actually translated to "Another dumbass white kid with Asian tats. LOL.
Barry Lyga
#86. What all men fear is indeed to be feared;
Lao-Tzu
#87. Claire, I'm sorry. I know now that I did everything wrong with you. By loving you so much, I turned into everything you'd ever feared. I wanted to take all your pain away, and instead I only gave you more. I drove you away and I know you will never trust me. You will always think that I'm like him.
Sydney Landon
#88. Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.
Tom Shales
#89. The world was different. The world feared touch.
R.M. James
#91. Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#92. In a way, it was the beginning of something I'd long feared: that vampires would become part of the popular culture. That people would be too busy worshiping them or imitating them or even laughing at them - and forget to fear them.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#93. She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#94. To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca The Younger
#95. Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
Kingsley Amis
#96. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand.
Mary Shelley
#98. Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.
T.A. Uner
#99. Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down
William Shakespeare
#100. Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).
Lao-Tzu
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