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"In Algeria, I had begun to get used to the idea that death could strike without warning"
Jacques Derrida
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
Charles Bukowski
"Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation"
Toni Morrison
"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Tell him yes Even if you are dying of fear, even if later you are going to regret it, because whatever you do, you will regret it all the rest of your life if you say no"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time."
Stephen Colbert
"Fear is not a real thing. It is a product of thoughts you create."
Joe Rogan
"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears"
Noam Chomsky
"Our greatest fear is not that we will fall short, but that we will be powerful beyond measure"
Steven Pressfield
"The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death"
Steven Pressfield
"You could live just a long time alone in your skin and change the locks on the door of your fears"
Maggie Smith
"Always do what you are afraid to do "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Too much caution is bad in life as it is in the long run in art"
Norman Vincent Peale
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom"
Bertrand Russell
"Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty"
Brene Brown
"Insecurity is a waste of time"
Diane von Furstenberg
"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today "
Hunter S. Thompson
"I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction"
Bill Watterson
"You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time"
Stephen Colbert
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