
“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”
“There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.”
Source: The Captive Part II / The Power
“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”
“When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.”
Source: The Sandcastle Girls
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Context: "You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."
"And what do you find on the other side? When you go on?"
"Your life again. What else?"
"Is that a promise?"
"It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on."