"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings." — William Shakespeare

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• No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
• I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those… — Adam Arkin
• Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters… — J. J. Abrams
• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
• Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual… — Margaret Atwood
• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep. — Abu Bakr
• A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour… — Honore de Balzac
• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson
• My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man… — Aeschylus

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