#fear

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death. ↗

— A.C. Swinburne The Triumph Of Time

#fear #life #death

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ↗

— Will Durant

#fears #hopes #minds #most #people

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#anger #anxiety #components #even #exist

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fear #get #life #live #mugged

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#being #china #christian #far #fears

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#disease #experience #fear #made #manifest

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#abandon #absolutely #appalled #brain #dare

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#cannot #descend #destruction #fear #lion

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion... ↗

— J.D. Robb

#fear #science-fiction-romance #death