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There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter XVIn context
- Courage
Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume I: Fantine, Book First: A Just Man, Chapter VIIIn context
- Good & Evil
O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though ’twere to buy a world of happy days,
So full of dismal terror was the time!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by ClarenceIn context
- Sleep
Of those things only should one be afraid
Which have the power of doing others harm;
Of the rest, no; because they are not fearful.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Inferno, Canto IIIn context
An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!
James Whitcomb Riley1849–1916Little Orphant Annie (1885)In context
- Children
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 2In context
- Animals
As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 4In context
- Advice
Why should a mortal man, the sport of chance,
With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid?
Best live a careless life from hand to mouth.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by JocastaIn context
- Luck
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
John Keats1795–1821When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be (1818)In context
- Life & Death
- Writing
When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene II, spoken by Lady MacduffIn context
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
William Ernest Henley1849–1903Invictus (1875)In context
- Courage
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Measure for Measure (c. 1604), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by LucioIn context
- Motivation & Goals
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Measure for Measure (c. 1604), Act III, Scene I, spoken by IsabellaIn context
- Life & Death
The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Measure for Measure (c. 1604), Act III, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Life & Death