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What are these two lies - these Illusions - that for too long have done their best to keep us from a real peace where we can still remain human? One is certainly the glory of war. It offers us cheaply, but with tragic results, a sense of power in the face of that 20th Century helplessness and powerlessness we hear so much about. War is about the power that fear demands of us, isn't it? Power, after all (the lie assures us), is what the world is really about, isn't it? The meek are fools. The reasonable are suckers. If you really believe in your country, your family, your values, you will wage war to protect them - because there is indeed an Enemy out there and the Enemy, like a host of fallen angels, is out to destroy everything you value. By waging war you'll be redeemed by war's very violence, won't you? The consequences of this are of course terrible: the perpetuation of Power Uber Alles, of war itself, of the assumption that whether we win or lose our submission to Power redeems us.
— Bruce McAllister
All I wanted was to return to - to the people around me. I wanted it badly enough I didn't have room for fear. The worst had happened, and the darkness was calm and quiet. It did not seem like a bad thing to fade into. But I wanted to go home.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
If you pay attention, you may find that it is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable, so you avoid doing the thing that will evoke fear and other disquieting emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
— Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
In my work with hundreds of women over the past few years a theme has emerged: women’s desperate, unquenchable desire to step into their power, countered by the fear of what will happen if they do. The longing to express the riches inside them, wrestling with the deep terror of being burned by the judgement, hatred or rejection of strangers or loved ones if they do. This fear of being burned is an oddly female one. It is a fear which keeps us small and scared… but seemingly safe. From the outside this can seem like an overreaction. Both the need, and the fear. But women, it seems, have an innate knowing of what it means to burn… and be burned. They know the dangers in their bones. And it makes them wary.
— Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
Creativity takes courage. Not just once, but consistently. Without courage we cannot be creative. Without feeling fear at some point we will not reach our creative potential. From first putting paint on paper through to selling our work on a worldwide stage there is plenty to be scared of. But this is where creativity lives – on the edge of our comfort zones.
— Lucy H. Pearce, The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood
We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.We dare not talk of the fire, for fear it will destroy us.And so we live in the half-light, Like our mothers before us.Come to the fire, Feel it warm your skin.Come to the fire,Feel it burn in your belly,Shine out through your eyes.Come dance in the fire, Let it fuel your prayers.
— Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
Then, the massive hands lifted the new people up to a pair of giant indescribable lips and whispered, in a fundamentally untranslatable Creator-language, something that meant, approximately: THIS TIME, BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. REMEMBER: EACH OF YOU WANTS TO BE HAPPY. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU WANTS TO LIVE FREE FROM FEAR. AND I WANT YOU TO. EACH OF YOU ARE SECRETLY AFRAID YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. BUT YOU ARE, TRUST ME, YOU ARE.
— George Saunders, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
I think a lot of people are really scared right now. Not every person makes good choices, and sometimes, when people are scared, there are people who try to take advantage of that fear.
— Ezekiel Boone, Skitter
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light.
— Anthony Liccione
The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.
— Shannon L. Alder
You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you.
— Adam Kirk Smith
Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.
— Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing
But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
The battered and pathetic thing that represented any claim to conscience I might have had turned away from me in disgust. Oddly, I couldn't blame it. I was disgusted myself. Disgusted at my weakness and my lack of resolution, at my refusal to see justice through in the name of the woman who had borne me.
— Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing
There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail—only learn, grow, and become better than you've ever been before.
— Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life
The journey towards God has to be travel on your own. All the fear, setbacks, motivation, inspiration has to be pulled from inside.
— Roshan Sharma
The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice.
— Aayush Jain
Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are.""And flaunting it isn't what saved you."Ykka takes a deep breath. The muscles in her jaw flex, relax. "And that would be why I asked you do this, Cutter. But let's move on."So it goes on.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
Fear makes you worry and worry makes you weary.
— Todd Stocker
Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Problems don't get better with time they become better when you find bravery. Success demands that you fight your fears. 
— Adam Kirk Smith
Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don’t be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism and negativity.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent. Like my fear of snakes. When I was eighteen I drove my car off the highway into a ditch because there was a snake on the road. It didn't matter that the snake couldn't have bitten me through the car. It didn't matter that the snake probably wasn't even poisonous or might have even already been dead. It didn't even matter than swerving off the road at fifty miles per hour posed a much greater danger than the snake I was frightened of. Fear doesn't listen to reason. It takes its own counsel.
— Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Promise
Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.
— Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Every time I stare into those eyes of yours, they shine like a mirror with the sharp edges, piercing trough every bit of my reflection. It makes me feel like a child lost in the woods. And all of a sudden I hear a song somewhere and a shiver runs down my spine. A song that I have heard somewhere before. A song that makes all my demons dance forcefully at once.
— Akshay Vasu
Don't seek a failure-less life. Wear failure as a badge of honour. Seek a fearless life !
— Manoj Arora, Dream On: Every setback is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On
A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.
— Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones
Many men find themselves unable to cope with even minor frustration. They get angry over trivial things, such as a broken pencil lead or an overcooked hamburger. Their anger erupts and gets out of control. They feel as though they are constantly under attack, that everyone is out to get them, and that nobody understands or cares about them. They may even get superstitious and believe that fate has it in for them, or that God has turned against them. This feeling of having no control leads to a state of continual frustration and anger.This tendency to react with instant anger can be called rage. Rage is anger that never completely goes away. Unlike regular anger, it is not a response to a specific event; rather, it is a response set, or tendency. In other words, it is an automatic way of reacting to the world without much thought. When you react to more and more situations with anger, it becomes your habitual response. You may often find yourself furiously yelling or seething inside without even knowing what it was that made you so angry. Rage sees personal attack in every disagreement. Rage causes you to feel threatened when there is no threat. And rage causes you to viciously counter-attack even a minor threat.Rage is like a wounded animal. It attacks anything that moves. And as with a wounded animal, the attacks do nothing to ease the pain. Rage depersonalizes individual people and events into a faceless, nameless "them".
— Thomas J. Harbin, Beyond Anger: A Guide for Men: How to Free Yourself from the Grip of Anger and Get More Out of Life
How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one’s ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void.
— Teo Yi Han
Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.
— Martina Boone, Illusion
The more you conquer fear, the more you become stronger.., For that don't let the More Evil in.
— Sharath Nazre
Most people have fear to compromise with life.You got to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it yourself.You decide how you use your time.
— Kristin Ketelslegers
Tulip hated this feeling. The last time she had felt this way, she had been utterly humiliated and deeply hurt. She couldn't imagine allowing herself to be charmed by another handsome man only to be heartbroken again. But she was different now, wasn't she? Stronger, bolder, and indeed more worldly.
— Serena Valentino, Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch
Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.
— Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.
— Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.
— Joe Hill, The Fireman
I'm not sure if it was entirely sadness that caused the tears, but there was so much love. And that's all that mattered. Despite the fear, despite the sadness, despite the pain, there was love.
— Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
I’m not afraid of death, just of dying.
— Duane Hewitt
Fear will hunt you down, right to the very depth of your soul".
— Aireen Pontillo
Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is that the fear that destroys us is rarely the monster it pretends to be, nor does it possess anything close to the power that we grant it. Therefore, it is only a killer, a cancer and a thief because we empower it to be so.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I never knew true fear until I met pure evil. He wore a smile and a bow tie.
— T.M. Frazier, Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part One
Fear is your sword
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
Don’t be afraid,” he says with a half smile. “You’re with me.” His hand tightens around my wrist, tugging me down again playfully. And this time, I feel safe enough to take a deep breath of my own and do as he says.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you have an imagination, welcome to the gates of Reality.
— Sofia Reyes
She was lucky to be wanted not desired though, worse pain is the feeling of being unwanted in love.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
All bombing is terrorism.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm’s length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
My heart's a dance of fear.
— Aeschylus, Eumenides
Get me in here. Get me in here now!" I order. I have to get out of the swamp before it happens again.But it does.I feel it before I see it. Dozens of thick, razor-sharp needles pierce my right leg, sinking into my skin. It hurts like nothing I've felt before, and a strangled scream of pain escapes me.Babette whips her head around, the motor forgotten. "Rylan! What is it!""Get me out! GET ME OUT!" I scream. Fearfully, I look over my shoulder, but seconds later I wish I hadn't as the attacker comes to the surface. It has a scaly body, sharp claws, feral eyes, and a long, ugly, sneering snout that's clamped around my leg.Melanie identifies it with a shriek. "GATOR!
— Colleen Boyd, Swamp Angel
I much prefer not to fall, unless of course I am falling into the hands of God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sometimes when I felt the eyes crawling on me from all sides, I got scared thinking someone was looking who wasn’t just curious. I knew it was my imagination and I got used to it, learned to shunt it away. But sometimes I held onto it quietly, that feeling that someone behind or beside me in the crowd – some guy leaning on the target booth with a rifle, or some cranky sweating father spending too much on ride tickets to keep his kids away from him – anybody could be looking at me in the sidelong way that norms use to look at freaks, but thinking of me twitching and biting at the dirt while my guts spilled out of the big escape hatch he’d cut for them… a feeling like that is special. Sometimes you hold onto it quietly for a while.
— Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
How sad it would be to get to the end of life and realize God gave you wings, but you never used them.
— Khrys Vaughan
Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don't let fear, or doubt creep in. Instead, let hope creep in. Start believing in yourself. Open your mind and heart to the possibilities.
— Akiroq Brost
The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Even if he survived the Sorcerer, there would always be another Sorcerer, bigger and more dangerous than the last. It was just a matter of time until he died the kind of gruesome death that was the very reason people had paralyzing phobias of heights.
— Megan Westfield, Lessons in Gravity
Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.
— Karina Halle, Veiled
Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There comes a time when loneliness is stronger than fear.
— Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead
In the darkest forest, Where trees bled into the rivers and no light reached the ground. I saw the demon crawling behind me whispering everything I don't want to hear. I screamed and ran to escape it until I lost all my breath and fell on my knees. Until it laughed maniacally and whispered in my ear again "you cannot run from yourself".
— Akshay Vasu
Why did God want us to remember these painful stories? I could only think of one reason. Having faith is more than just believing; it's about living with fear and self-doubt and working through those feelings until they bring some sort of answer.-page 101, Chapter "Hajj
— Zarqa Nawaz, Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
Fear is acceptable, as long as I don't allow it to cripple me...
— K.M. Shea, Heart of Ice
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You scare me, Gage."  Her eyes pleaded with him to understand.  "You tore me up, ripped me apart.  It took me a long time to put the pieces back together again."His thumb grazed along her cheek in a soft caress.  "I know baby, but I promise you, you have nothing to fear this time.""How do you know that?  How can you promise something like that?""Because I would die protecting you.  I would slay dragons for you."  He fisted her hair and brought his face close.  "I would get on my knees and beg for you.
— Sarah  Curtis, Engaging
Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.
— Kio Stark, When Strangers Meet: How People You Don't Know Can Transform You
Hate is a word that doesn't hurt but the word I love you hurts when taken advantage
— Sofia Reyes
An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.
— Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm
One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare
— Sofia Reyes
The nature of conspiracy, which among those who both feared and named it, seemed to always possess at its core a misguided belief in the competence of others, as weighed against the incapacities, real or imagined, of the believer. Therefore, he concluded, the belief in conspiracy was an announcement of the believer's own sense of utter helplessness in the face of forces both mysterious and fatally efficient.
— Steven Erikson, Fall of Light
God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Fear is peace and Peace is fear
— Sofia Reyes
To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I love the storm and fear the calm.
— Christina Queen of Sweden
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
— Peter T. Mcintyre
One thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing Nothing. A goldmine when you realise it. Don't be paralysed by analysis. Don't be paralysed by fear. The one thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing nothing achieves nothing.
— Tony Curl, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn't decided yet.
— Anna Snoekstra, Only Daughter
The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Son of Porthos: Or, the Death of Aramis
Cut all cordsSail at your own paceSail with no fear in your mind and heartBe the captain of your life.
— m.k dindoyal
Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we’ve done with it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no reprieve when you have a broken mind; cease-fires are rare. Even on good days, you know everything could change on a dime. Fear is your constant shadow
— Barbara Claypole White, Echoes of Family
Imagine, if you will:Meradinis!The stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the stars – home planet to the fearsome and once legendary Corsairs. The very name of this world immediately grabbed the imaginations of young boys and girls, and universally mesmerize dreamers and romantics alike. The truth though was less romantic – and as reality so often demonstrates in real life - instead rather ugly and brutal. The Corsairs were not corn-ball comics that went about with parrots on their shoulders, saying “Arr!” to everything they encountered. They were anything but. Behind the Corsairs and their culture lay a history fraught with a struggle to survive, a vengefulness and a cruelty – and a drive to survive by preying upon others that struck fear into the hearts of neighboring fringe worlds.
— Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning
What you are afraid of is also afraid of you face your fear! 
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If I’ve learned anything from my past and my present, it’s the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don’t fight back. I know this well enough.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love — poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
19. Those who are the happiest are not necessarily those for whom life has been easiest. Emotional stability results from an attitude. It is refusing to yield to depression and fear, even when black clouds float overhead. It is improving that which can be improved and accepting that which is inevitable.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things…or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you’ll drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower…and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I’ll loose you…I keep losing people.
— Anne Sexton
One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all
— Bruce Cockburn
He stared into his coffee, thinking quietly. "But you've never been afraid of anything, have you?""I have, though," I said, surprised at my own emotion. "I've been terrified... I just haven't let it stop me
— Paula McLain, Circling the Sun
Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.
— Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. 
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear. 
— V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men
Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it.
— Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
We have nothing to fear but fear itself
— Michel de Montaigne
Fear, that’s the great motivator though. Fear keeps it all in check. Fear of one’s neighbor. Fear of those who don’t look like you. Fear of those who live in some barren desert halfway across the globe,” Sean continued. “Domestic terrorism, just as much as fear of those abroad has helped people accept more intrusion into their everyday lives. To accept less freedom as freedom itself.
— Jordon Greene, They'll Call It Treason
He didn’t remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasn’t as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried… and when he found himself alive again a few hours later with Mearth’s wild green eyes peering down at him, he remembered still being afraid and worried. It was strange, he thought, to be afraid of being alive… but being alive was worse than being dead in his mind.
— Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
Like heartbreak, these unpredictable crises are not something you should live in fear of. Perpetual fear won't protect you. Fear is not a citronella candle; scary life happenings are not mosquitoes. They happen in ways we can't predict, control or understand. The only guaranteed outcome of feeling scared all the time is that you will feel scared all the time.
— Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
Instead, though, as he drew nearer, his mind kept drifting back to Gansey's voice in the cave the day before. The tremulous note in it. The fear - a fear so profound that Gansey could not bring himself to climb out of the pit, though there was nothing physically preventing him. He had not known that Richard Gansey III had it in him to be a coward.Adam remembered crouching on the kitchen floor of his parents' double-wide, telling himself to take Gansey's oft-repeated advice to leave. "Just put what you need in the car, Adam."But he had stayed. Hung in the pit of his father's anger. A coward, too.Adam felt like he needed to reconfigure every conversation he'd ever had with Gansey in light of this new knowledge.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Aukeman quotes Norman Mailer:"No wonder then that these have been the years of conformity and depression. A stench of fear has come out of every pore of American life and we suffer from a collective failure or nerve. The only courage, with rare exceptions, that we have been witness to, has been the isolated courage of isolated people." Welcome to Painterland (2016) Chapter 4, p.108
— Anastasia Aukeman, Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association
Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.
— Dawn Hammill, Galiene: A Twelfth-Century Tale of Love and War
GriefYou plunge one in many emotionsBetrayal, Despair, Depression, Fear, AngerGriefYou are more difficult to face than DeathGriefPlease let my faith stay stronger than youGriefI so wish you eventually lose out to love(Page 58)
— Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
Scared of words? I don't see why anybody ought to fear words. Words are tools
— you have to know how to use them to get donethe job you want to get done. Can't do the workif you're scared of the work.
Letting myself fall wasn't easy. It wasn't hard either. It was a calling that I had to honour. I did honour. I took a plunge into my dark abyss. I faced my grief, my fear, my sadness, my loneliness, my anguish, myself. (Page 78)
— Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
Insecurity is the lack of trust in your abilities and worth. When you enter into a secured state of consciousness, everything that helped boost your confidence will return.
— Itohan Eghide, Master of Maxims
The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
— Alexander the Great
Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.
— Elizabeth Hoyt, Darling Beast
One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wings to the stories you had wanted to tell; some you didn't even know were in you. In that instant, something about you changes. You are born again.That is not to say the fear and worry and second-guessing go away. They are there. But you learn to cope with them. You learn that they don't control you at all times. In those fleeting moments of freedom, you have the power. You know you are not perfect. You realize no one was born perfect. No one. Rome wasn’t built in a day either.A weird thing happens when you get a glimpse of that side of you. A child-like zeal possesses you. It is addictive. You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You are worthy. You are alive. You can be.
— K.J. Kilton
Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
— Carrie Hope Fletcher, All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully
Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.
— Maureen Brady, Daybreak: Meditations For Women Survivors Of Sexual Abuse
One challenge at a time, I try to turn into the face of fear and tell it “you are not my master, you are the product of my self and I am your master.” I look into the monster’s eyes until it disappears. Then I am free.
— Rohvannyn Shaw
The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.
— David L. Conroy, Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain
FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many timesAnd my episodes of deathGave me the powerOver the greatest fearsThe fear of lifeThe fear of self
— Dauglas Dauglas
One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wings to the stories you had wanted to tell; some you didn't even know were in you. In that instant, something about you changes. You are born again.
— K.J. Kilton
Do you see how much power you have when you act without fear?
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Biblical heroes were regular people who had to learn the same things you and I have to learn–to drive out fear by increasing their knowledge of God, to shift their focus from their present fear to the eternal God, to replace what they didn’t know about the future with what they did know about Him.
— David Jeremiah, What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith
This was it. This was what I had never felt before--an emotional connection to another human being. I'd tried kindness, I'd tried love, I'd tried friendship. I'd tried talking and sharing and watching, and nothing had ever worked until now. Until fear. I felt her fear in every inch of my body like an electric hum, and I was alive for the first time. I needed more right then or the craving would eat me alive.
— Dan Wells, I Am Not A Serial Killer
What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.
— Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Fear is Torment. The one who fears is not build to LOVE. The one who loves is made free off fear. The perfect love ousts all fear.
— Henry Johnson Jr, Liberian Son
We forget that the power of God isn’t in a weapon or a leader, but within us.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Avoid fear because it will blind you from seeing God’s purpose about your life and limit your potential.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendent world; or to be worse than worstOf those that lawless and incertain thoughtImagine howling: 'tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death.
— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.
— Patricia Highsmith
[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.
— Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο σκοτάδι
Courage emerges as you climb over the circumstances that threaten to bury you! But you must be willing to climb to find courage.
— Jeff Dixon-Terror in the Kingdom
If I wanna die I may be awesome that I fear nothing. So I can do anything in this earth. Cause I am about to die. And If I start to do anything in this earth, the worst can be, I will die. This is the way I make impossibles possible.
— Arefin Bashar Arif
All the things people carry in their hearts, love, hatred, fears, and they had to be shared with a friend or a loved one, because when we do not share them, sometime, all the things love, anger, hatred, fears ends up coming out of us mixed-up. We just become a shell with nothing inwards us, an empty soul with nothing in it, that is as bad as dying.
— Shaikh Ashraf, Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
All men have their FEARS. But those who face their fears with FAITH have COURAGE as well.
— Thomas S. Monson
The beautiful thing about fear is when you run to it, it runs away
— Robin S. Sharma
After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government or self. Again like Kafka, she looked into the great abyss which separated the spiritual and the material and saw the terrifying emptiness, the hollowness, at the heart of every man, a sense of alienation she felt compelled to explore in her fiction. As her next hero, she would take an architect, 'a young man whose authority is art and therefore himself,' who when he murders, 'feels no guilt or even fear when he thinks of legal retribution'. The more she read of Kafka the more she felt afraid as she came to realise, 'I am so similar to him.
— Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο σκοτάδι
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bulletproof. He needed to build himself and his life so that he was invulnerable, so that nothing and no one could ever get to him. All of that changed on the day he was introduced to the daughter he didn’t know he had. In that moment he knew he was both saved and lost. He would be forever connected to the world in the way only a father knew.- "Nine Dragons" by Michael Connelly
— Michael Connelly, Nine Dragons
People who have practiced occult religions for many years are being told that they don't know the first thing about their own religion and its beliefs and practices - and that a bunch of zealots from another religion posing as 'experts' (in a religion they despise/ fear/ oppose and who peddle slander and misinformation about occult religions), are more credible than they are.Non Seqitur. This does not follow.
— Christina Engela
Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.
— Lisa Wingate, The Sandcastle Sister
You can shine as a light in this world and you will be safe. The divine has your back.
— Eileen Anglin
Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.
— Christina Engela, Blachart
He'd seen that the young ones died quickly. He'd heard the staff talk about it. When they were ready they let go. Not like adults. Adults took a long time. It was as if adults had built such a thick, petrified husk around them that this alone gave them the strength, the form to hold on. And by the transient revival that so often came to the dying, adults seemed to find a last little puff of life before the end. They had a term for it here at the hospital -- hui guang fan zhao, the reflected rays of the setting sun. Children were lacking in this. They went quickly. He watched as the DOWN light came on and the elevator door slid open.He had a fear that his life now was just an interlude of hui guang fan zhao, a brief moment before it all came back, worse. And for so long now he had been in this state by himself. He stared up at the digital floor numbers flashing, descending.
— Nicole Mones, A Cup of Light
On the other side of fear is your breakthrough.
— Jeanette Coron
We are beings of immense potential, ability and skills. In order to realize our God given talents we need to break through the fear barrier, which through its invisible walls traps us better than any physical prison can be constructed by the hands of man. Our human will and faith can break any barriers that fear can construct.
— Inshan Meahjohn
The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worsethan any danger.
— Willowy Whisper, This Hostile Land
Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
She asked him, to name the monster that he is most afraid of always and looked into his eyes in silence. 'I see him every time whenever I stare into your eyes.' he replied.
— Akshay Vasu
To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
She allowed me to understand I'd done everything I could for her, and that I, and everyone who loved her, had to step away and go on living.Now I know what she wanted from me on the day she told me she was afraid. It was exactly what I wanted when I had cancer and I thought I was going to die. I should have sat down next to her, put my arms around her, and told her that I loved her. That's all anyone wants. It took me a long time to figure this out. It's a complicated human puzzle. But it's never too late to know that love is all you need.
— Alice Hoffman, Survival Lessons
Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.
— Darren Shan, Bec
If fear can prevent us from potential vital danger, it can also be lethal – kills our dreams, chances, personal development and passion, prevent us from living our life at maximum.
— Kim Kiyosaki, Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women, Take Charge Of Your Money, Take Charge Of Your Life
Increasingly, I'm coming to believe that fear is at the heart of all sin and disaffection. Fear that God will not be enough for us; fear that the identity we've been given is somehow incomplete.
— Jonathan Martin, Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?
But that's one way we can identify the devil's voice: It always plays to our fears. It is the voice that tells us we must do something to prove who we are, to prove that we're worthy, to prove that we are who God has already declared us to be. When we know we are loved by God, we don't have to prove anything to anyone. There is nothing we can do to make ourselves more beloved than we are.
— Jonathan Martin, Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?
Taking away men's weapons will be not bring peace. They'll fight with sticks and stones, and tooth and nail. Mapidéré's is a peace supported only by fear, as secure as a nest built on a rotten branch.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I now. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
I'm afraid of everything I don't know.
— Kelly Thompson, The Girl Who Would Be King
Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind