“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, Fortitudo (1623)
“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.”
Sally Gardner book The Red Necklace
Source: The Red Necklace
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) Norwegian writer
Source: The Wreath
Jorge Luis Borges book The Immortal
"The Immortal", § IV, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power
Book 1, sec. 55 (10 June 1887) http://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche_the_will_to_power/the_will_to_power_book_I.htm <br class="br">The Will to Power (1888)