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Fear Quotes

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Plato
"We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time"
Brene Brown
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others"
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Plutarch
"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger"
Euripides
"Fear cant exist when gratitude is present"
Randi Zuckerberg
"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion"
Thomas Hobbes
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Søren Kierkegaard
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality"
Seneca
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"
Seneca
"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."
Noam Chomsky
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."
Mikhail Bulgakov
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears"
Michel de Montaigne
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Marie Curie
"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets"
Jacques Derrida
"Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation"
Honoré de Balzac
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Herman Melville
"Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe "
William Shakespeare