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Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

—Robert Benchley, 1935

War is fear cloaked in courage. 

—William Westmoreland, 1966

People living deeply have no fear of death.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Fear is the foundation of most governments. 

—John Adams, 1776

I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

Dread attends the unknown.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1998

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050

Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44

Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 108

An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid. 

—Jean Anouilh, 1944

I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Charles Dickens, 1837

People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.

—Richard Nixon, 1975