I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
Yann MartelTags: fear philosophy
They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.
Richard AdamsWithout fear there cannot be courage.
Christopher PaoliniTags: fear inspirational courage bravery
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore RooseveltTags: fear wisdom risk timidity decisiveness inaction just-do-it
The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
Pam HoustonTags: fear change growth inertia self-invention
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.
Philip PullmanTags: fear philosophy
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy BernardIt frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...
Bob DylanThe baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.
Tags: humor fear dark light bat
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
Keith AblowTags: fear
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