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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 108

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

—Albert Camus, c. 1940

The man in constant fear is every day condemned.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Richard Nixon, 1975

Dread attends the unknown.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1998

An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid. 

—Jean Anouilh, 1944

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

—Robert Benchley, 1935

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

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

People living deeply have no fear of death.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Charles Dickens, 1837

War is fear cloaked in courage. 

—William Westmoreland, 1966

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972