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title: "3 Fearful Expectation Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Fearful Expectation quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Fearful Expectation sayings and thoughts."
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> [The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joost-meerloo/the-tension-of-a-mysterious-danger-is-even-more-unbearable-than/)

[Joost Meerloo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joost-meerloo/)

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> [What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/what-is-there-so-fearful-as-the-expectation-of-evil-tidings-delayed/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

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> [“What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-shelley/what-is-there-so-fearful-as-the-expectation-of-evil-tidings-delayed-2/)

[Mary Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-shelley/)

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