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Quotes About Fear

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
~ Arthur Somers Roche
You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.
~ Arnold Glasow
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.
~ Amelia Earhart
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
~ Josh Billings
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
~ Diane Arbus
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
~ James Russell Lowell
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.
~ Elie Metchnikoff
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
~ Mark Twain
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
~ Henry Saint John
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
~ Russell Green
Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.
~ Anonymous
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
But if the Length of the Journey was all, it would be no burden. But the Consideration of What is to be done, is of great Weight. Great Things are wanted to be done, and little Things only I fear can be done.
~ John Adams, 1774
The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.
~ Seneca
Despair is the offspring of fear and impatience.
~ Proverb
I need to get my life together, but I'm kinda waiting to see if the world is gonna end before I put in any real effort.
~ Internet meme
The problem is to be faced and the solution to be shirked.
~ Bernard Shaw, 1910
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?
~ Ishmael Beah
Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.
~ Ishmael Beah
Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.
~ Ishmael Beah
Our innocence had been replaced by fear and we had become monsters. There was nothing we could do about it.
~ Ishmael Beah