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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Thinking Love Writing Humans Sometimes Form Fear Situation Wonder Depression Madness Paint Manage Therapy Panic Inherent Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Graham Greene

“There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.”

People Ifs Feels Made Important Self Sometimes Fear Alive Laughter Tragedy Anger Angry Superstitions Pagan Relics

Author:Mary Stewart

“Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.”

Sometimes Moving Fear Wings Add Heels Nails Fetters

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“I fear no man. Sometimes I think I do not even fear God.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Fear Fear God Fear No Man

Author:Zitkala-Sa

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.”

Feels Doe Sometimes Happiness Success Fear Pleasure Inspiring Company Angry Perseverance Deny Discrimination African American Harlem Make Me Angry Harlem Renaissance

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.”

Sometimes Shows Fear Lines Dread

Author:Vivien Leigh

“You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.”

Knows World Want Feels Wells Sometimes Fear Hair Roots

Author:Sharon Stone

“Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.”

People Trying Made Sometimes Life Is Three Fear Meals Soup Three Times

Author:Martin Amis

“Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.”

Want Looks Sometimes Fear Dangerous Judging Concerned Scared Right Thing Wrong Things

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

Sometimes Grows Fear Lines Strange Easier Obedience Soil Weed Potatoes Corn Defiance Straight Lines

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.”

“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”

People Ifs Sometimes Fear Realizing Courage Expectations Brave Bones Frightened Pretending Expecting Be Brave Realised Overcoming Fear High Expectations

Book:Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

“It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”

People World Firsts Looks Kind War Sometimes Seems Might Fear Brain Murder Brave Manage Awful Relief Frightening Murderer Tumors Brain Tumor

Author:Sharon Creech

“That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.”

Sometimes Matter Happens Eye Faces Fear Fronts Scared Outwitting

Author:David Wroblewski

“Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.”

Ifs Knows Writing Wells May Sometimes Happens Able Moving Night Fear Teach Know How Minutes Down And Wine Dust Worried Bottles Fifteen Typewriters Writer's Block Upstairs

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

World Inspirational Sometimes Fear Worst Novelists Liars No Fear Fear And Courage

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.”

Knows Sometimes Fear Can Do Realizing Behinds Newspapers Knees Girlfriend Grades Sickness Horizon Cages Behind You Dots Sneak Hang In There Puke Seventh Grade Canaries Best Girlfriend

Author:Jennifer Rardin

“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”

Ifs Way I Can Sometimes Facts Seems Fall Heaven Fear Perfect Mistake Careful Betrayal Assumption Making Mistakes Declaration Betrayed Reminders My Mistakes

Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

“Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.”

Sometimes Hands Fear Shoulders Warning

Author:Anne Rice

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.”

Sometimes Feelings Wanted Pain Fear Talking Mental Health Mental Illness No Fear Ugliness No Pain Ink Exchange

Book:Ink Exchange

Source: Ink Exchange

“Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope”

Long Sometimes Feelings Turns Fear Taken Tables Scary

Book:Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

Source: Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.”

May Sometimes Fear Shame Scared Ashamed Belle

Book:Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”

Thinking Want Sometimes Fear Differences Eyelashes Width

Book:How It Ended

Source: How It Ended

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”

Sometimes Choices Fear Good Choices

Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”

Want Inspirational Sometimes Fear Want Something Overcoming Fear

Book:Icefall

Source: Icefall

“In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”

People Knows Sometimes Faces Used Fear Water Silence Clear Reflection Shadow Depth Casts Obstacles Staring Streams Dread Obscure Transparent Clear Water

Book:Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

Source: Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

“I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”

Sometimes Wisdom Hope Fear Failing Leaving Hopeful Bark Steers Gloomy Foreboding

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

“We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.”

Ifs Heart Doe Sometimes Enough Seems Earth Fear Trouble Materials Circles Scales Chains Substance Welfare Merchants Delicacy Vex Surveyors

Author:R. A. Torrey

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”

Sometimes Science Fear Atheism Humorous Witty Rage Scream Thesis

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

Sometimes Fear Modern Extremes Contradiction Reserves Assertion Contradicting

Book:A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain

Source: A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain

“A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.”

Men Has Beens Sometimes Fear Forget Danger Promise

Book:Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women

Source: Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women