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Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

War is fear cloaked in courage. 

—William Westmoreland, 1966

Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44

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

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 108

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

—Richard Nixon, 1975

Who lives in fear will never be a free man.

—Horace, 19 BC

I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Charles Dickens, 1837

People living deeply have no fear of death.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

—Albert Camus, c. 1940

An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid. 

—Jean Anouilh, 1944