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Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Charles Dickens, 1837

Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 108

Fear is the foundation of most governments. 

—John Adams, 1776

People living deeply have no fear of death.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.

—Richard Nixon, 1975

Who lives in fear will never be a free man.

—Horace, 19 BC

Dread attends the unknown.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1998

An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid. 

—Jean Anouilh, 1944

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

—Albert Camus, c. 1940

Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050

The man in constant fear is every day condemned.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC