We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. [Jean De La Bruyère (1645-1696), French writer, moralist. Characters, "Of the Heart," aph. 63 (1688).]
If you fear loneliness, then don't get married. [Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author, playwright. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Works, Notebook I, vol. 17, p. 85, "Nauka" (1980).]
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. [James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Dedalus, in Ulysses, ch. 2 of 1984 edition (1922).]
I fear you speak upon the rack,
Where men enforced do speak anything. [William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2, l. 32-3. She fears Bassanio may not be honest in his protestations of love.]
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else. [Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. Sergeant Clinton (Farley Granger), The Purple Heart, about to be tortured (1944).]
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. [Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Experience," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 13, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).]
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. [Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Oedipus Colonus, l. 296.]
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. [Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Romulus the Great, act III (1956).]
If you fear loneliness, then don't get married. [Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author, playwright. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Works, Notebook I, vol. 17, p. 85, "Nauka" (1980).]
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. [James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Dedalus, in Ulysses, ch. 2 of 1984 edition (1922).]
I fear you speak upon the rack,
Where men enforced do speak anything. [William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2, l. 32-3. She fears Bassanio may not be honest in his protestations of love.]
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else. [Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. Sergeant Clinton (Farley Granger), The Purple Heart, about to be tortured (1944).]
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. [Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Experience," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 13, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).]
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. [Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Oedipus Colonus, l. 296.]
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. [Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Romulus the Great, act III (1956).]
