Fear quotes

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, “The Place of Science in a Liberal Education.” Russell continues by describing an attempt to see material frankly, without preconception or wishful bias.

Crime and Punishment, Part I, Chapter I, printed page 2 / Wikisource scan leaf 34, Constance Garnett translation in the scan-backed 1917 Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction / P. F. Collier & Son edition, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #2554. Raskolnikov thinks “Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most” while walking toward the pawnbroker during his contemplated “rehearsal”; the line remains morally compromised fictional interior monologue rather than generic motivational advice.

Hopes and Fears for Art, lecture “The Art of the People”; Project Gutenberg #3773. The counsel is explicitly directed to people studying or practicing art.

As a Man Thinketh, “Thought and Purpose.”

2 Timothy 1:7 in the King James Version.

Essays of Montaigne, Book III, Chapter XIII, “Of Experience,” Charles Cotton translation; Project Gutenberg Volume 19 #3599 / Complete Essays #3600. Montaigne argues that anticipatory fear can add suffering before the feared event arrives.

Act 1, Scene 2; Ferdinand describes the terror surrounding the shipwreck.

Casa Guidi Windows, Part II, printed page 143 in the represented Poetical Works volume, Project Gutenberg #31015. This corrects the inherited Part II provenance. The frozen catalog row begins ‘whoever may Discern true ends here,’ but the witness embeds that clause in Browning's longer sentence beginning ‘I tell you rather that, whoever may...’. Browning is arguing specifically about Tuscan/Italian political freedom in the Risorgimento context; the excerpt is not a context-free motivational or psychological rule.

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet XXXVI; Project Gutenberg #2002. The growth is emotional and relational within the poem, not a clinical recovery benchmark.

Moll Flanders, Project Gutenberg #370. The fictional first-person narrator uses weather metaphor while recalling an early relationship crisis and the family’s growing hostility toward her.

Of Peace of Mind, section X, Aubrey Stewart translation (1889), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and Wikisource. Seneca argues that voluntarily setting limits to success can interrupt the repeated alternation of hope and fear and prevent ambition from expanding without bounds.

Three Men in a Boat, Chapter I; this sentence ends the British Museum self-diagnosis sequence.

Citizenship in a Republic, commonly called the Man in the Arena speech; Roosevelt contrasts action with spectatorship.

Dhammapada 205, Max Müller translation; the verse joins solitude and tranquillity with “drinking in the law,” preserving its religious context.

The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson, Chapter XI, “Chat Moss—Construction of the Railway”; represented 1868 revised edition, Project Gutenberg #46229. Smiles records Stephenson’s first-person recollection of the directors’ crisis over Chat Moss in quoted speech.

“The Raven,” first published in 1845 and represented by Poetry Foundation. These lines belong to the poem’s unnamed bereaved speaker as he searches darkness after hearing the mysterious tapping; they are dramatic Gothic narration, not Poe describing a personal supernatural event.

A Journal of the Plague Year, Project Gutenberg #376. The remark follows a false rumor that meat in Newgate Market was infected. It is historical-literary plague narration, not modern psychological or medical guidance.

Letter 82 examines fear, death, and the difference between brave and merely unavoidable action.

The Power of Truth, “The Courage to Face Ingratitude.” Project Gutenberg #56020; first published August 1902. Jordan’s standard is moral perseverance, not indifference to all criticism.

An Essay on Criticism, Part III; Pope warns against reckless confidence and poor judgment in critics.

Meditations, Book VIII, section 48, George Long translation.

Three Men in a Boat, Chapter I; the narrator explains why every patent-medicine advertisement convinces him he has the advertised disease.

1 John 4:18 in the King James Version; this record uses the opening clauses of the verse.

The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter I, “The Eve of the War,” Project Gutenberg #36. The sentence opens the novel by establishing the retrospective Martian-invasion premise and the narrator’s contrast between human complacency and extraterrestrial scrutiny. It is speculative-fiction narration, not a factual claim that Earth was observed by Martian intelligence.

Poem “A Psalm of Life.”

Pudd’nhead Wilson, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar; the courage aphorism appears in Twain’s chapter-epigraph sequence and is preserved as a Calendar maxim rather than character dialogue.

Out from the Heart; Allen lists contrasting mental conditions while arguing that the inner life strongly shapes experience.

Fruit-Gathering, poem LXXIX; Project Gutenberg #6522. This excerpt completes a prayer against anxious craving to be saved and retains that spiritual context.

Poem “If—,” opening lines.

Tao Teh King, chapter 44, James Legge translation; these compact poetic lines follow a contrast among fame, life, and wealth.

Speech “The Strenuous Life,” April 10, 1899.

Deuteronomy 31:6 in the King James Version.

Meditations, Book IV, section XL, Meric Casaubon translation represented by Project Gutenberg #2680. The promontory image recommends steadiness under repeated disturbance. The frozen catalog wording shortens the represented witness after “yet it”: Gutenberg reads “yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.” This remains translation-mediated Roman Stoic moral philosophy, not a modern clinical resilience finding.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 13, section 4, Richard M. Gummere translation.

If—, opening line; the next line describes being blamed by those around you.

Pudd’nhead Wilson, Calendar epigraph before the chapter section in which the flea comparison appears.

John 16:33 in the King James Version; excerpt from Jesus’s closing words to the disciples.

“The Old Stoic,” Project Gutenberg #1019. This is the poem’s closing aspiration and remains a literary statement rather than medical or psychological guidance.

Villette, late in the novel; spoken in the first-person narrative voice of the fictional Lucy Snowe. The religious hope belongs to Lucy’s character and scene, not a direct autobiographical declaration by Charlotte Brontë.

Dhammapada 39, Max Müller translation; its religious vocabulary belongs to the text’s discipline of watchful thought and should not be reduced to a clinical claim about anxiety.

Galatians 6:9 in the King James Version; opening clause of the verse about perseverance.

Little Women, Chapter 44, “My Lord and Lady,” Project Gutenberg #514. Amy March Laurence says the represented storm/sailing thought while discussing married life with Laurie. The frozen catalog wording expands the source contraction to “I am not afraid of storms,” while the represented #514 text reads “I’m not afraid of storms”; this is a legacy wording variant of the same passage represented by the separate contracted record, not a second independent locus.

Act 3, Scene 1; Hamlet weighs existence against suffering and uncertainty.

Tusculan Disputations, Book V, section XIV, represented by Project Gutenberg #14988. Cicero defines security parenthetically as freedom from anxiety while arguing that a happy life must rest on stable goods and virtue rather than vulnerable externals. It remains ancient philosophical psychology mediated by translation, not modern clinical anxiety-treatment evidence.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 4.

Letter 47, on master and slave, argues for humane treatment grounded in shared humanity.

‘The Damned Thing,’ section IV, ‘An Explanation from the Tomb,’ in Can Such Things Be?, Project Gutenberg #4366. ‘There are colors that we cannot see’ appears in Hugh Morgan's fictional October 7 diary entry as he speculates that the invisible creature occupies a color outside ordinary human vision. It is late-nineteenth-century speculative-horror explanation using period scientific language, not a current scientific claim establishing the story's creature or a new human-visible color.

Stickeen; Muir says this while attempting a dangerous glacier crossing, tying the line to immediate physical risk rather than abstract motivational language.

Hebrews 13:6 in the King James Version.

Aequanimitas, 1889 valedictory address. Osler uses the phrase while defining imperturbability for physicians and surgeons; it is retained as a professional ideal in its historical medical setting.