Fear Quote by Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

— Norm MacDonald

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden…

— Daniel Defoe

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

— Brené Brown

Things seem worse than they really are when we are afraid!!

— Glen Rambharack

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules…

— Anais Nin

“The anxiety felt in anticipation of a disaster is far more disturbing than the actual encounter of the disaster itself for the human mind…

— Neelima Dalmia Adhar

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an…

— Caitlin Thomas

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

— Julius Caesar

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

— Anonymous

“More awful than the fear of danger was the fear of looking foolish—of being excited when others were laid back—of being somehow manipulated,”

— Toni Morrison