Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Ladies of the Corridor
“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“Worse than war is the very fear of war.”
peior est bello timor ipse belli.
Thyestes, line 572 (Chorus).
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“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
Richard Hooker (1554–1600) English bishop and Anglican Divine
Quoted by Samuel Johnson in the preface http://books.google.com/books?id=j-UIAAAAQAAJ&q=change+%22is+not+made+without+inconvenience+even+from+worse+to+better%22&pg=PT8#v=onepage to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.”
John le Carré book Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Ed Gorman (1941–2016) American writer
Source: Everybody's Somebody's Fool
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”
Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature