"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."
        Sir Francis Bacon, Essays [1625], "Of Death"

    "There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."
        Cyril Connolly

    "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth-- more than ruin, more even than death."
        Bertrand Russell

    "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
        Eric Hoffer

    "To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none."
        Sir Francis Bacon, Essays [1625], "Of Seditions and Troubles"

    "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
        Louis E. Boone

    "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
        Nelson Mandela

    "I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified."
        Anita Weiss

    "A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination."
        Sir Walter Scott

    "For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true."
        Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.], De Rerum Natura, bk. III, l. 87