Seneca the Younger Quotes

A man without hope is a man without fear.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there's really not much to fear at all.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

I don't want to lose hope.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

We hope vaguely, we dread precisely; our fears are infinitely more precise than our hopes

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

Fear is unnecessary.

I've already been KO'd, embarrassed. Nothing is going to be worse than that, so what's to be scared of?

I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.

I'm never funnier than when I'm heartbroken or terrified.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.