“We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.”
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8 quotes“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
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Taylor Swift
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Michel de Montaigne
5 quotes“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
George R.R. Martin
5 quotes“Laughter is poison to fear.”
Bertrand Russell
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Kafka
5 quotes“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
Laurell K. Hamilton
5 quotes“People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.”
Daniel Handler
4 quotes“If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.”
Seneca
4 quotes“If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.”
Seneca
4 quotes“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination t...”
Edmund Burke
4 quotes“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”