Pliny the Elder Quotes

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

The unknown is always scary.

While there's life, there's fear.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

The unknown is always frightening.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

I fear the future.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

Americans have discovered fear.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.