#fear

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#age #fear #go #greatest #greatest problem

He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#love #men #relationships #women #love

I don't fear anything now. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#fear #i #now

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#existence #fact #fear #get #integral

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#always #capital #class #class struggle #effective

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#around #began #clear #death #descriptions

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets. ↗

— Judith Light

#circles #closets #exactly #fear #gay

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#consciousness #fear #heaven #indeed #lord

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#fear #fear god #god #him #little

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#did #die #fearful #i #laugh