Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

When I start thinking about the future it freaks me out.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

While there's life, there's fear.

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

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

I fear the future.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

I don't like thinking too much about the future - it freaks me out.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

The unknown is always frightening.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

Americans have discovered fear.

Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on human experience.

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.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.