“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.”
More from Daniel Handler on Fear
“If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.”
“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
“You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.”
Others on Fear
Dale Carnegie
8 quotes“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer f...”
Veronica Roth
6 quotes“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it...”
Taylor Swift
6 quotes“I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.”
Laurell K. Hamilton
5 quotes“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
George R.R. Martin
5 quotes“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of...”
Michel de Montaigne
5 quotes“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Kafka
5 quotes“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
Don DeLillo
4 quotes“Fear is intense self-awareness.”
Napoleon
4 quotes“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
Edmund Burke
4 quotes“No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Jim Butcher
4 quotes“Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerabl...”