Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.
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