“All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.”
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Living Enlightenment
“All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.”
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”
Robin Hobb book Ship of Magic
Source: Ship of Magic
“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam
Canto XI, st. 18
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
“In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
“Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Barack Obama: "The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Untied Kingdom in London, England," April 1, 2009. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85953&st=&st1= <br class="br">2009
Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows
Variant: We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.
Source: Lord of Shadows