“Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?”
VII, 18
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”
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Plato
(-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
This quotation, often attributed on the Internet to Plato, cannot be found in any of Plato's writings, nor can it be found in any published work anywhere until recent years. If it really were a quotation by Plato, then some author in the recorded literature of the last several centuries would have mentioned that quote, but they did not. The sentiment isn't new, however. The ancient Roman Seneca, in his work on "Morals," quoted an earlier Roman writer, Lucretius (who wrote about the year 50 B.C.), as saying "we are as much afraid in the light as children in the dark." (Seneca was paraphrasing a longer passage by Lucretius from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Book II, lines 56 et seq.)
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“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”
Henry David Thoreau
(1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.”
Katherine Anne Porter
(1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Statement at age 80 in The New York Times (3 April 1970)
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”
Sylvia Plath
(1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath