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My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you left, I’d follow you.”But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth to bring you back.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
What's going to happen to us?
— Tsukumizu, Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
The moon is my fear.The sun is my heart afire.The stars, my love songs.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.
— Shannon L. Alder
What is courage without fear?
— Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
— Shannon L. Alder
Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.
— Shannon L. Alder
Emma, everyone's afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.
— Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
— Dante Alighieri, The Inferno
If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish to embrace all experience and encounters in life or seek escape from various aspect of human nature. How we resolve to address existential anguish becomes a large part of our personal story.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Acknowledging the problem is healthy, fearing it is not.
— Karla Perry, Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability
How I'm glad to go back home!Once I truly have no more worry. Many of those who are in a hurry Endure setbacks in the outcome.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.
— Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
Great fear can cast love out.
— Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.
— Solas
I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.
— Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling but a fear of responding to the call. 
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
Dear God, I’m afraid of the things that I don’t understand. I’m even afraid of you, God. Please open my heart to your love. Show me how to understand and how to live with you each day. I don’t want to look weak, God, but the truth is I am weak because I don’t know you at all. Please come into my heart and allow me to push aside my pride and accept you totally into my life. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus’s name, I pray, amen.
— Ron Baratono
My sister, the one who knows everything and pulls out facts out of a bottomless hat, told me people aren't afraid of snakes or water upon birth. It is only once we hear the snake and water stories, she says, once we are exposed to fear, that we deny our primal instincts and make room for the dread to take root and mature.
— Tania Aebi, I've Been Around
Sometimes, the greatest safety can be found in taking the right risk. Whether it be an individual, a community or a country, when faced with tragedy or fearful uncertainty, we either become bigger and enter life more fully, or else we accept a diminished life and resign ourselves to a smaller way of being.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears, no complaints from me - a total lack of affect. In a victim, it is courage and thus admirable; in a predator, it is a lack of humanity and instills fear.
— M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
When we take rejection as proof of our inadequacies, it's hard to allow ourselves to risk being truly seen again. How can we open ourselves to another person if we fear that he or she will discover what we're trying desperately to hide—that we are stupid, boring, incompetent, needy, or in some way deeply inadequate? Obviously we won't meet many people's standards or win their affection, respect, or approval. So what? The problem arises when shame kicks in and we aren't able to view our flaws, limitations, and vulnerabilities in a patient, self-loving way. The fear of rejection becomes understandably intense when it taps into our own belief that we are lesser than others—or lesser than the image we feel compelled to project.
— Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
change is a constant in life – maybe the only constant there is – and sudden change is not unusual. Thus an important inquiry is: How can I make change a friend rather than source of fear?
— Paul O'Brien, Great Decisions, Perfect Timing: Cultivating Intuitive Intelligence
There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I want the world, I think. Even if it scares me.
— Sara  Barnard, A Quiet Kind of Thunder
Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.
— Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life
I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.
— Ahmed Mostafa
When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.
— Peter Heller, Celine
Fears and expectations that date back to earlier experiences of dependency, but that didn't arise during courtship or dating, are activated as commitment to the relationship increases. As a result, partners start to anticipate the worst, not the best from their relationship.
— Stan Tatkin, Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship
Do not fear to give yourself a chance that will change you for the better.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Kids grow up hearing fairy tales, but the biggest fairy tale of all, I realized at the age of four, is that life is safe. Life isn't safe, I learned. It's crazy. Evil is real. One minute you could be riding your bike on the way to get candy, and the next, you're dead. Anything could happen anywhere at any time. So now what? How was I supposed to live without giving in to the fear?
— David Kushner, Alligator Candy: A Memoir
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— N'Zuri Za Austin
Fear always reaches a breaking point and turns into anxiety or rage, and I don't have enough storage space for more fear in my life. Namely when it involves people I've never even met.
— Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
We may believe that anxiety and fear don't concern us because we avoid experiencing them. We may keep the scope of our lives narrow and familiar, opting for sameness and safety. We may not even know that we are scared of success, failure, rejection, criticism, conflict, competition, intimacy, or adventure, because we rarely test the limits of our competence and creativity. We avoid anxiety by avoiding risk and change. Our challenge: To be willing to become more anxious, via embracing new situations and stepping more fully into our lives.
— Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.
— Edvard Munch
I used to think fear either numbed or nudged. Now I knew fear did neither. Fear was a key that fit every person's hollow spaces---those things that kept us cold at night and that place where we retreated when no one was looking---and all it could do was unlock what was already there.
— Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes
Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn't be conquered or tamed or avoided. Only moved through, with force and will.
— Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes
In my own life, I have seen God calm my fears and set my heart at rest when I praise and worship Him in the midst of my challenges. My friend, I want to encourage you, when you are riddled by destructive thoughts of fear or despair, turn your eyes upward and begin praising God for who He is and what He is able to do. Fears so easily pop into our thought-lives, and if we are not careful they can begin to dominate our minds. At that moment, allow your heart to worship Him. Praise Him that He knows all things, He can see all things, and He can do whatever He wants. Give Him glory for His sovereignty, majesty, love, and compassion. What a privilege that He invites us, His people to approach His throne and worship Him.... We can worship God day and night. Although it may seem counterintuitive, we can praise God even in our challenges and difficulties as we turn our hearts toward Him and recognize His ability to do all things. The opposite of worship would be to live with an attitude of pride, arrogance, fear, and self-centeredness.
— Karol Ladd, Becoming a Woman of the Word: Knowing, Loving, and Living the Bible
If I seem to not want to be with him now, it’s only because love scares me too, more than manipulation, because love is a choice I make and not something forced upon me. I trust him, but I don’t trust myself. I must have time to trust myself so I can completely love him.He’s the grenade. I’m the grenade. We’ll blow each other to pieces… Together.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
There is no finish line. Life is the experience and fear is the force of growth.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham
Listen to your fears, they are the doorway to your freedom.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham
Growth requires courage, risk and the willingness to go beyond fear.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham
It seems to me that few people walk their ways with deliberation, stopping every so often to delight in the seasons and in the simple, important, enduring things. Most of those I know are either rushing about blindly, almost headlong, or inching along, looking down. Both methods of progression are, in a spiritual sense, not progression at all, but symptoms of fear.No matter what has happened or what you fear will happen, you have to walk as though you were going somewhere—not in a hurry, not at a crawl, and certainly not running away from something toward you know not what.It cannot be said too often, or by too many people, that the path we follow must be taken a step at a time—never on the run, and never standing still, neither going backward nor marking time. Everyone hazards a guess at the future—his own, the future of those he loves, the future of the country and the world. Statisticians often come up with some amazing suggestions; so do computers; but no one really knows. Only He know, Who created this world in all its beauty, and our small selves, with it. And it's just as well that we don't know.
— Faith Baldwin, Harvest of Hope
Of all my objections to Jonathan Crane—and it is a lengthy list—the one point I will concede is that sometimes Fear has a purpose. Sometimes, fear is nature’s way of saying: Whoa there, Sundance, you sure you want to be jumping off that cliff, what with the rocky bed of the Colorado River churning 300 feet below? Sometimes, Fear has a point.
— Chris Dee, Cat-Tales Book 2
The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a ‘fun’ idea to hang someone over the cliff ... me!
— Eskay Teel, Alice in Worcestershire: Brummie girls do cry
Yes,” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)
— Richie Norton
My tragedy is no peculiar. It is as ordinary as a street dog. I struggle and cope with my wants, my needs,my desires, me deeds and my dreams. I am not disillusioned, only a bit translucent. Maybe, I fear the consequences.
— Vandana Yadav
Fear makes you a stranger to yourself.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it.Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don’t be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how the shame web works. We have very few realistic options that allow us to meet any of these expectations. Most of the options that we do have feel like a "double bind." When Marilyn Frye describes a double bind as "a situation in which options are very limited and all of them expose us to penalty, censure or deprivation.
— Brené Brown
The day Cami nearly succeeded at her suicide attempt was the worst day of Kaci’s life. Cami was the only sister that she had, and she couldn’t imagine spending the rest of her life without her.
— Valenciya Lyons, Life After Natalie
Growth requires courage, strength and the willingness to go beyond fear.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham
And that's why I don't get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we're older but we're not the grown-ups who seem too far away to understand. I tuck that thought inside me, warm and small like balled hands inside hoodie pockets. Beneath the beech trees and sugar maples, feet crunching against dead leaves, I hope for strength. Because as much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold onto.
— Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us
When difficulties come, we must see them as what they are---opportunities and a new path to discover your potential. How will you ever know the magnitude of courage you are capable of if you have never experienced the hopelessness of fear?
— Farah Oomerbhoy, The Last of the Firedrakes
Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire.
— Shai Tubali, Indestructible You: Building a Self that Can't be Broken
When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
My truth asked people to understand and to learn about depths of pain they had previously walked past…. I had kept my silence for a reason. - from Without a Voice by Chris Pepple
— Chris Pepple, Without a Voice
The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does not want to come to an end. . . . What you are afraid of is not death. In fact, you don't want to be free from fear. . . . It is the fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead. What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new science, new talk, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call “yourself” is fear. The “you” is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear.
— U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out: Dialogues with Krishnamurti
Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love—letting go can feel scary.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.
— Catherine Jane Fisher, I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice
That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.
— K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.
— Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising
Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on that ending, rather than on the beautiful story that was created before the end came. We are obsessed with endings, so much so, that we would rather not live at all, than live and then lose. So, we have two choices: to not create our stories because we know that one day they have endings, or, to build our stories and therefore to live, filling the many years with memories and moments! An end takes one day to happen, but life takes place in the moments and in the memories that we choose to feel, to build, to hold. Don't miss out on the years, for the fear of one day.
— C. JoyBell C.
Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. “…Callo, I’m so sorry that your life ended up this way,” she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. “Aren’t you scared?”“I’m you, Geraldine… I fell into the same trap as you, anyway,” Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but he doesn’t seem afraid in the least. “…The dead don’t feel anything, you know… not even guilt or regret. So, what is there to be afraid of?
— Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
Key the mind, and set the soul free.
— Anthony Liccione
Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.
— Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure. 
— Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences
— Sunday Adelaja
Complex steels our energy with the help of misgivings, strains, and fear of consequences for wrong decisions
— Sunday Adelaja
Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification
— Sunday Adelaja
We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the creator’s point of view
— Sunday Adelaja
People with a distinctly displayed fear of failure are prone to do their work well and with good coordination only in a case when their task require simple skills
— Sunday Adelaja
Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.
— Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals
— Sunday Adelaja
The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.
— Sunday Adelaja
I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It’s a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.
— Cecelia Ahern, Flawed
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
— Harry Homes
It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.
— Christopher Pike, Chain Letter
When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are authentic - is when you and they will achieve the most.
— Phil Dourado, The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know about Leadership, in One Minute Bites
Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...
— William Horwood, Duncton Quest
Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.
— Tomas Schuman
You are sorrow. You exist, even if joy is present. You’re not like them. You’re not like any other emotion. Hate and fear come and go, but you exist even when the breeze is clear of sadness. You are permanent and needed.
— H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King
What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.
— John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior
When in despair… when in fear… when in doubt… make something.
— Brian K. Friesen, At the Waterline
As long as we’re comparing analogies,” Jack added, “how about this one? A person being chased by a bear doesn’t have to be able to run faster than the bear. He only has to be faster than his slowest companion. Driver picks. I’m going to catch up with the convoy, find a way to pass several of the cars, and not be last in line.
— Donald G. Firesmith, Demons on the Dalton
For it is a choice, I think, to close the heart, just as it is a choice to open it. It is a choice to look at what distresses you, and a choice to shut your eyes. It is a choice to hold tight your pain, or else let it slip your grasp, set it free to make its mark upon the world.
— Beth Underdown, The Witchfinder's Sister
When you live.. You can die.. Accept it... ..and become fearless
— Erik Tanghe
Who is Mr. Jasper?"Rosa turned aside her head in answering: "Eddy's uncle, and my music-master.""You do not love him?""Ugh!" She put her hands up to her face, and shook with fear or horror."You know that he loves you?""O, don't, don't, don't!" cried Rosa, dropping on her knees, and clinging to her new resource. "Don't tell me of it! He terrifies me. He haunts my thoughts, like a dreadful ghost. I feel that I am never safe from him. I feel as if he could pass in through the wall when he is spoken of." She actually did look round, as if she dreaded to see him standing in the shadow behind her."Try to tell me more about it, darling.""Yes, I will, I will. Because you are so strong. But hold me the while, and stay with me afterwards.""My child! You speak as if he had threatened you in some dark way.""He has never spoken to me about - that. Never.""What has he done?""He has made a slave of me with his looks. He has forced me to understand him, without his saying a word; and he has forced me to keep silence, without his uttering a threat. When I play, he never moves his eyes from my hands. When I sing, he never moves his eyes from my lips. When he corrects me, and strikes a note, or a chord, or plays a passage, he himself is in the sounds, whispering that he pursues me as a lover, and commanding me to keep his secret. I avoid his eyes, but he forces me to see them without looking at them. Even when a glaze comes over them (which is sometimes the case), and he seems to wander away into a frightful sort of dream in which he threatens most, he obliges me to know it, and to know that he is sitting close at my side, more terrible to me than ever.""What is this imagined threatening, pretty one? What is threatened?""I don't know. I have never even dared to think or wonder what it is.""And was this all, to-night?""This was all; except that to-night when he watched my lips so closely as I was singing, besides feeling terrified I felt ashamed and passionately hurt. It was as if he kissed me, and I couldn't bear it, but cried out. You must never breathe this to any one. Eddy is devoted to him. But you said to-night that you would not be afraid of him, under any circumstances, and that gives me - who am so much afraid of him - courage to tell only you. Hold me! Stay with me! I am too frightened to be left by myself.
— Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The idea of becoming a mother at sixteen was the scariest thing that she’d ever thought of.
— Valenciya Lyons, Cami's Decision
One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.
— M.M. Scott
We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something
— Sunday Adelaja
But for many people, a huge part of the energy goes into the struggle with complexes, fear, worries, anxiety, and the energy cannot be used to achieve goals and dreams
— Sunday Adelaja
Use fear as a counselor not a captor.
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.
— Donald G. Firesmith, Demons on the Dalton
Write down everything you fear in life.Burn it.Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.
— Yoko Ono, Acorn
They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.
— Donald G. Firesmith, Demons on the Dalton
Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say ‘love’, others ‘hate’, others ‘fear’. I am disposed to put ‘curiosity’ on a level, at least, with these august sensations, just mere simple inquisitiveness.
— E.F. Benson, Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Whatever our fears are, reflect on our deep core beliefs and insecurities.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man’s leg
— Todd Stocker
Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man’s leg.
— Todd Stocker
Fear is the vehicle in which love can do its worst.
— Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet
Fear is very powerful, almost as powerful as love.
— Katie Hamstead, Myths of Mish
4 rules i live by1. Trust none2. Respect all3. Never run 4. Fear god
— O. S. Hickman
Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them.
— Gift Gugu Mona
We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it. 
— W.G. Pogson Smith, Leviathan
The rich people of this world fear only one thing: death
— Sunday Adelaja
Do not be afraid of living without family- be afraid of living an empty and meaningless life
— Sunday Adelaja
Edwyn can almost feel his testicles crawling up his ass.
— Cornelius  Moore, The Club
The elasticity of our dreams can take us to unspoken worlds, but our innate horror of the unknown is what weighs us down. Fight it.Travel to the isolated coils of smoldering dust trapped in our dusky sky or explore the unseen timeless vibration of dancing particles that fashions existence. Whatever choice you make can change your life forever. The same applies to a story. Words are the atoms of a tale, and together they compose a universe.
— H.S. Crow
Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.
— Jeffrey Fry
Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.
— Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising
Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
...you look the truth in the face - not the truth that has fangs and fur but the hard truth about yourself, that you're just as dangerous as the beings the rest of the people fear but you can't afford to be as honest about it. You can't tell those people that you'll make deals with what they fear in order to keep them sage from the monsters who look just like them.
— Anne Bishop, Etched in Bone
People who live in the night are acquainted with all kinds of quiet. There’s quiet enough to hear the distant traffic. Quiet enough to hear your breathing. Quiet enough to hear a lover’s heartbeat. There’s please-god-don’t-let-me-die quiet, and can’t-remember-her-name quiet. Is-he-lying quiet and can’t-make-rent quiet. There’s the quiet that inspires poets, and quiet that torments the lonely.
— Chris Dee, Cat-Tales Book 1
Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts of the country. Women are afraid that if they should make a mistake, or do "the wrong thing", they'll be pun
— Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
There are plenty of good reasons for fights," I said, "but no good reason to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive."It's that part of an imbecile," I said, "that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
... love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, whereas love motivates me to choose what is best for another person. Fear urges me to hang on, white knuckled, to what is mine, while love can actually lead me to let go.... when you hold something you love tightly to your chest for fear of losing it, you actually risk crushing it against you.
— Susan Meissner, Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.
— Mike Carey, The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
Fear was like heat applied to steal: Applied correctly it might forge a blade; overused, it turned metal to slag.
— Alexander Freed, Star Wars - Battlefront - Twilight Company
We ought to be much more fearful of what we don’t know. We should really be fearful of an unconscious that inhabits us, that guides us, that influences our life and of which we don’t know the face and don’t know the message. Actually I have much less fear since I confronted fears. What’s frightening to me is people whose unconscious leads them, destroys them, and yet they will never stop and look at it. That’s the minotaur in the labyrinth, which many people never come face to face with. There was a very remarkable percussion composer, Edgar Varese, who always mocked psychology, mocked psychoanalysis, mocked psychiatry. He was satirical about it, wouldn’t have any of it. And yet his whole life pattern was self-destructive. He was an innovator and a tremendous musician. But he blocked himself. His biography is out now, and you can see the pattern. You can see this demon that was driving him, the origin of it. He seemed to be a very fearless, strong, tremendous tempered man with great force; he even looked like a Corsican bandit. But he had no power over the forces that were pushing him. That is what frightens me.
— Anaïs Nin, A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin
If his men could have seen his young face under his faceplate, or if they could have heard the silent curses rolling off his tongue, they would have realized to their astonishment that their captain, only twenty years of age but already famous and formidable, was crying. Astrias's tears were tears of burning fury. The rage he felt that hour he would never forget for his whole life thereafter.
— Kaoru Kurimoto, The Battle of Nospherus
Life's not all about happiness. Take the sad and pain too. But never forget the Almighty ALLAH. Speak to him about every fear,dream and hope
— Altaf ul qadti
We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheated, before blood wets the ground and screams fill the air, that the futility descends upon us all. Without our armor, we would all weep.
— Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.
— Susan Meissner, Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
Fear is intense self-awareness.
— Don DeLillo, Players
Most people are afraid of what will happen when they go outside the lines.
— K. Melissa Kennedy, The Innovation Revolution: Discover the Genius Hiding in Plain Sight
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.Ho ho ho. Let's not get carried away here. Freedom was yesterday in this country. Its value has been discounted. The only freedom we truly crave today is freedom from Dumbness. Nothing else matters.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
We were both shattered. We were broken people who longed to be whole. We thought it was love that was driving us to do what we did. But it wasn't love. It was fear. We were both too afraid of ending up unwanted and unneeded.
— Susan Meissner, Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
If you know who you are, it reduces your fear of trials
— Sunday Adelaja
If we know who we are and have gone through a process of self-identification in accordance with the creator’s plan, we will no longer undervalue ourselves or be afraid
— Sunday Adelaja
Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.
— Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.
— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
We’re like magnets, you know. Only I’m spinning, so I keep pulling you in and then pushing you away. I like you, but then you hurt me, so I run. I like you, but then something makes things feel impossible, so I turn away. And you. You’re so constant. Your orientation never wavers. You feel what you feel and you want what you want without hesitation or doubt. God, I envy that. I feel like if someone stripped away my hesitation and doubt that there’d be nothing left.
— Paula Stokes, Ferocious
My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.
— Kamand Kojouri
I think about the way Baz teased me earlier, how he wanted to know what it felt like to have someone who would do anything for me. Maybe it sounds comforting to know there is a person out there who would risk his life to protect you—a person who would back off when you asked and then come to you when you changed your mind. Especially when that person is as kind and decent as Jesse. The truth is, it’s terrifying. It’s just one more opportunity for me to be a monster.
— Paula Stokes, Ferocious
Fear is like a disease that can be fatal if not treated on time.
— Addhaya Anil
How fast can you run?When you really have to?In heels and a work skirt, with your bag banging against your side: how fast?When you’re late for your train and you have to get home, and you race down the platform with seconds to spare: how fast can you run?What if it isn’t a train you’re running for, but your life?If you’re late home from work, and there’s no one in sight. If you haven’t charged your phone and no one knows where you are. If the footsteps behind you are getting closer, and you know, because you do it every day, that you’re on your own; that between the platform and the exit you won’t see another soul.If there’s breath on your neck, and the panic is rising, and it’s dark, and cold, and wet.If it’s just the two of you.Just you, and whoever’s behind you.Whoever is chasing you.How fast could you run then?It doesn’t matter how fast.Because there’s always someone who can run faster.
— Clare Mackintosh, I See You
Never let fear of short term heartache interfere with your long term happiness.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that "I" and all other "things" now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help to cling to the rocks falling with you. If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all.
— Alan W. Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Those who were afraid of the dark and always refused to throw themselves inside it. Never got to see and feel how beautiful it is, to meet and greet one's own demons.
— Akshay Vasu
I don’t want to be told when I wake up, terrified by a dream of total annihilation, because of the H-bomb exploding, that people felt that way about the cross-bow. It isn’t true. There is something new in the world. And I don’t want to hear, when I’ve had an encounter with some mogul in the film industry, who wields the kind of power over men’s minds that no emperor ever did, and I come back feeling trampled on all over, that Lesbia felt like that after an encounter with her wine-merchant. And I don’t want to be told when I suddenly have a vision (though God knows it’s hard enough to come by) of a life that isn’t full of hatred and fear and envy and competition every minute of the night and the day that this is simply the old dream of the golden age brought up to date …
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.
— Cecelia Ahern, Flawed
Don’t become that which you fear most.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.
— Zoe Cruz, Beastia
I’ll rid the world of each one of you,” he whispered. “Every single one…
— Zoe Cruz, Beastia
Stop groveling, stop whining and start working!
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we haven’t been able to create any distance between ourselves and what we’ve been running from regardless of how fast we might have been running and how far we think we might have gotten.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
An imagined evil can be worse than the real thing.
— Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr.
The prospect of a certain loss brings the go system online.
— Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.
— Patricia Cornwell, Chaos
Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.
— DaShanne Stokes
The power to compel is not the same thing as leadership, and one does inspire the other. You are not a leader, Walters, you are a bully and a coward of the worst kind. the fear you believe you inspire is merely the fear in which you constantly live, and it undermines the very leadership you profess to have. Strip a bully of his pulpit and he becomes a cowering, quivering thing... You will never lose the fear because it defines you, and the very things you seek to annihilate will be those which ultimately destroy you.
— April White, Cheating Death
Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all.
— Kevin Focke, A Salmon Amongst Trouts
Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear.
— April White, Cheating Death
The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
— Angelo Codevilla
This essay is intended to serve as a reminder that immense and threatening divisions in mankind can spring from differences between virtues as well as from envies and greeds. When the virtues on each part are largely inapprehensible by the other, the danger is heightened by Man's natural fear of what he does not understand, and his inclination to suppose it not worth understanding. To attack it easier than to study. There are also, in this case of China and the West, intense and complex cultural vanities on both sides to be taken into account: vanities largely inexplicable the one to the other...
— Ivor A. Richards, Richards on Rhetoric: I.A. Richards: Selected Essays (1929-1974)
If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I told you from the beginning—as soon as I could—I told you I was afraid of myself." There was a piteous pleading in the low murmur in which Deronda turned his ear only. Her face afflicted him too much. "I felt a hatred in me that was always working like an evil spirit—contriving things. Everything I could do to free myself came into my mind; and it got worse—all things got worse. That is why I asked you to come to me in town. I thought then I would tell you the worst about myself. I tried. But I could not tell everything.
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
Tacit collaboration by millions whobite their lip is even more essential than lip service by thousands of favor seekers. Hence, to stimulate at least passive cooperation, the party strives to give the impression that “everybody” is already on its side. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
— Angelo Codevilla
It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.
— George Orwell, 1984
The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. (“Into a new life”)
— Erik Pevernagie
An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.
— Jeffrey Fry
It is funny how we hurt ourselves, isn’t it? We’re the reason of what happens to us, we’re the reason of our suffering, we choose the wrong people to hang with, to date and to love. The mind blames the heart, the heart blames the lover and that's how the cycle of life and love goes. Sometimes, we’re so afraid to lose people and end up alone. Despite of their hurting, we think that if we chase them away we’ll never be able to fill their places, we fear feeling empty and alone and most of all we fear the fact that they may move on before us.
— Yasmine Marouf Araibi, Forget-Me-Not
Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...
— Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The Big Green Tent
Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.
— Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.
— DaShanne Stokes
In the end, what we fear will not go away, for it indicates what we must go through in order to awaken, become more genuine, and live more fully. The problem is that we tend to be most afraid of what our own souls require of us. Often our deepest fear is that we might become who we are intended to be, who we already are at our core. For becoming who we truly are requires the greatest amount of change.
— Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.
— Edward Rutherfurd, London
By accepting fear in our life, we automatically allow it to rule over us
— Sunday Adelaja