“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
More from Laurell K. Hamilton on Fear
“People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.”
“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
“It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.”
“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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...”