“It is not death we fear but the thought of it.”
More from Seneca on Fear
“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.”
“If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.”
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.”
Seneca
4 quotes“Where fear is happiness is not.”
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...”