The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.
Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)
Quotes about fear and facing it, from Lucretius and Shakespeare to Eleanor Roosevelt, Churchill and Mandela, each checked to its source.
Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)
Søren Kierkegaard · Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits (1847)
Benedict Spinoza · Ethics, III, definition 13: explanation
Duke of Wellington · [November 3, 1831]. From PHILIP HENRY STANHOPE, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington
John Millington Synge · The source reads: “A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.” · The Aran Islands (1907)
Frank Herbert · The source reads: “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.” · The opening of the Bene Gesserit litany against fear in Dune.
Paul Tillich · The Courage to Be (1952), ch. 2
Dave Eggers · A Hologram for the King (2012), ch. 2
Rainer Maria Rilke · Letters to a Young Poet (1904)
William Shakespeare · Macbeth (1606), I, vii
William Shakespeare · The source reads: “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; ’tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.” · Macbeth (1606), II, ii
The Bible · Matthew 8:26
Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 28 November 1934
Wendell Phillips · Speech celebrating Daniel O'Connell (August 6, 1870)
William Shakespeare · Macbeth (1606), V, v
Eula Biss · On Immunity: An Inoculation (2014)
William Shakespeare · Macbeth (1606), IV, ii
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · The source reads: “There was peace in their hearts. They were filled with the fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is not easy to come by but which endures.” · The First Circle (1968)
Sophocles · Acrisius, fragment 58
J. G. Ballard · The source reads: “However selective the conscious mind may be, most biological memories are unpleasant ones, echoes of danger and terror. Nothing endures for so long as fear.” · The Drowned World (1962)
Francis Bacon · The first sentence of the essay on death.
Seneca · From Letter 13, "On Groundless Fears", to his friend Lucilius, in Richard M. Gummere's translation.
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