“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever
Variant: There are only really two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.
Source: Darkfever
“There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
from Postscript on the Societies of Control
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Variant: There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
Ali Shariati (1933–1977) Iranian academic and activist
Source: On the sociology of Islam: lectures. (1979), p. 97; partly cited in: John L. Esposito (1996) Islam and Democracy. p. 25.