“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
More from Veronica Roth on Fear
“Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.”
“I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.”
“I miss the fears of the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now.”
“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.”
Others on Fear
Dale Carnegie
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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.”
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.”
Frank Herbert
4 quotes“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”
Edmund Burke
4 quotes“No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Jim Butcher
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