“Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerable.”
More from Jim Butcher on Fear
“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”
“I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”
Others on Fear
Dale Carnegie
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Veronica Roth
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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.”
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
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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.”
Laurell K. Hamilton
5 quotes“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
Daniel Handler
4 quotes“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.”
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.”