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Fear Quotes

"I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed."
Eminem
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch "
James Baldwin
"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it "
Salvador Dali
"The brave man is not the one who does not feel afraid, but the one who conquers that fear."
Nelson Mandela
"There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time"
Brene Brown
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Herman Melville
"Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation"
Honoré de Balzac
"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets"
Jacques Derrida
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"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
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears"
Michel de Montaigne
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."
Mikhail Bulgakov
"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."
Noam Chomsky
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"
Seneca
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality"
Seneca
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Søren Kierkegaard