“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”– Mark Twain Related Quotes “No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”– Eugene Ionesco “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”– Joan Didion “You’ve got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.”– Mariska Hargitay