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I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking, showing how fear can tighten the body. John Green points out that fear often stems from thinking you must choose one path, and he suggests studying broadly and facing the unknown to loosen that grip. He also mentions a deeper dread of oblivion and of not expressing love.

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“I fear oblivion”

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Afraid to love

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Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

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“Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”

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Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

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Study broadly and without fear.

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If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

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“I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.”

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“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”

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I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

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“mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the fear and the fascination. The great and terrible awe.”

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maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

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“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”

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I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

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This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run,…

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This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench!…

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“the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I’m not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies…

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“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say or someone you're afraid to love or somewhere you're afraid to go”

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I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare…

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“Maybe there's something you´re afraid to say, or someone you´re afraid to love, or somewhere you´re afraid to go. It´s gonna hurt.…

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“My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid…

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“Partly, I kept forgetting, but also there was something else I couldn't quite identify, some way-down fear that taking a pill to…

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That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like…

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“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe…

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“I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.” “But you…

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So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more…

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When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat…

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“The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you…

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“Imagine you're trying to find someone, or even you're trying to find yourself, but you have no senses, no way to know…

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I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple…

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Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

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“mysterium tremendum et fascinans-- that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”

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“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.”

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“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.”

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...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

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“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”

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“The fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what’s going to happen or when”

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“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare…

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“So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action [...] She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been…

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feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you…

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