“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”– Brendan Francis Related Quotes “I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.”– Laura Marling “I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”– Taylor Swift “Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.”– Titus Livius