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“The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?”

Enough Facts Fear Inspire Pages Terror Be Good Good Enough Blank Blank Pages

Book:Margaret Atwood: Conversations

Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations

“Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.”

Thinking Ends Artist Fear Loses Late Terror Studios

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.”

Men Fear Objects He Man Hero Overcoming Terror Foe

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.”

Men Mind Real Fighting Fear Taught Lessons Terror

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]”

Men Mind Fear Danger He Man Glory Ears Terror Vain Gloria

Author:Sallust

“Once you allow anyone to terrorize you, you will be terrorized all your life. Terror corrupts. Pretty soon you'll be terrorizing others. ... Life doesn't mean anything if you can't rid yourself of fear.”

Ifs Mean Fear Terror

Author:Martha Albrand

“The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.”

“If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.”

Ifs Persons Matter Age Form Sex Fear Shapes Capable Terror Vices What Matters Temperament Quake

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”

Action Fear Terror Terrorism Cures Inaction Overcoming Fear

Author:Douglas Horton

“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”

Men Fear Known Terror Terrorism

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”

Way Hate Fear Pure Hatred Anger Yeah Bottom Terror One Way Icy

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”

Men Littles Turns Fear Blessing Terror Christian Life Cures Scare Wrath Chastisement Fear God Wrath Of God

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!”

Ifs Thinking Soul Fear My Own Wonder Doubt Sea Strange Sake Dear Terror Dare Strange Things

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.”

Eye Fear Behinds Decided Terror Flash Quake

Book:The Demon's Lexicon

Source: The Demon's Lexicon

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

Stills Time Dies Fear Our Lives Fool Terror Stealing Loathing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.”

World Fear Terror Conquer Conquer The World

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.”

Thinking Feels Fear Amount Limits Terror Encounters Dimensions Boundless

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

“The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.”

Night Fear Laughing Terror Sunrise

Book:Les Mis??rables

Source: Les Mis??rables

“As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun.”

Writing Wells Feelings Light Able Wanted Fall Fear Journey Wall Blessed Filled Starting Terror Holes Relief Joyful Marvelous Bricks Bright Lights Brick Wall

Book:Misery: A Novel

Source: Misery: A Novel

“Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”

May Reason Literature Fear Integrity Fairs Weight Terror Awe Dealer Butchers

Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...

“"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."”

“Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.”

Politics Fear Walks Liberty Products Morality Ethics Terror Dare Chains Trust Others

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.”

Men Giving Death Fear Silence Dying Solitude Terror Nothingness Glimpse Impermanence

Author:Andre Maurois

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”