Daniel Handler Quotes

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

If I'm afraid of something, I'll deal with it and get past it.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Better be killed than frightened to death.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.