#fear

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#damning #fear #gained #i #longer

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #emotions #fears #fiction #get

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#confide #father #fears #innermost #mother

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved. ↗

— Patricia Schroeder

#hesitant #loved #many #more #more power

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#been #die #fears #great #great person

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone. ↗

— David Joseph Schwartz

#fear #fight #increase #off #postpone

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#agony #because #beforehand #cannot #concert

Do what you fear and fear disappears. ↗

— David Joseph Schwartz

#fear #you