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If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts
— Sunday Adelaja
Life in fear is the worse tragedy that can happen to a man
— Sunday Adelaja
Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle
— Sunday Adelaja
Let your love be stronger than your fear.
— Kate McGahan
To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is To Eliminate Fear
— Sunday Adelaja
The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear
— Sunday Adelaja
Fear is a snare that prevents us from moving forward, fear makes us an easy bait for the devil
— Sunday Adelaja
Never fear the unknown that is where your future may lie
— Candice Galek
Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Only the church of Jesus have the answers to dispel fear
— Sunday Adelaja
Fear makes people speechless
— Sunday Adelaja
Many people believe that eliminating the apparent causes of fear will eliminate it, but fear, like beauty, is part of the world. The fear of fear results in the growth of terror as well as a loss of the beauty and wonder of the world. By fearing fear, we create the room for terror and panic to grow. People become blinded by fear, driven by anxieties, and increasingly ruled by phobias and obsessions. When we fail to recognize how fear works in the world, we become ruled by it. The point is not to become paralyzed with foreboding or be caught in the panic that can grip the collective and cause people to run blindly in the wrong direction. The point is to willingly go where most fear to go, to follow where the fear might lead and face the ways that the world roars at us.
— Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
Because of fear, people who have civil rights can’t use them
— Sunday Adelaja
Fear is the bane of all creatures that bubbles inside us forming rocks of resistence, sucking away all will power to act, think or speak.
— Isabella Poretsis
To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way
— Sunday Adelaja
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 know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, show 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.Fear next turns fully to your body, which is already aware that something terribly wrong is going on. Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tongue drops dear like an opossum, while your jaw begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains too hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, your open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
When we take our eyes off Jesus and only focus on ourselves and our circumstances, we can no longer see Him. God says He will keep us in perfect peace if we keep our eyes on Him.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, Englisch on Purpose
The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.
— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
I was sure I fell in love with him again like the usual. He did things that made me go back to him. Once again, it scared me half to death.
— Kia Amazona, The Way It Was Before
...the greatest barrier to intimacy is fear -- fear of being known, fear of being rejected, fear of facing the truth about ourselves......We are afraid to be known because at some deep level we fear that the truth about us, when out in the open and reflected back to us through someone else's eyes, will be shocking to ourselves.
— Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!
— Corrie ten Boom
Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.
— DaShanne Stokes
Time that had not come yet—an anomaly in itself—had the fiercest reality for her. It was a hard wind in her face; if she had made the world, every tree would be bent, every stone weathered, every bough stripped by that steady and contrary wind. Lucille saw in everything its potential for invidious change.
— Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? Think only of repentance, continual repentance, but dismiss fear altogether. Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin. It has been said of old that over one repentant sinner there is more joy in heaven than over ten righteous men. Go, and fear not. Be not bitter against men. Be not angry if you are wronged. Forgive the dead man in your heart what wrong he did you. Be reconciled with him in truth. If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner, even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He explained that often times it's the love of something- like money, material, possessions, or power-and the fear of losing them, that command people to act. That love and fear are really the only two things that can forever alter a person, whether for the better or worse.
— J. Saman, Start Over
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
— Edward Albert
Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.
— Natasha Tsakos
Perhaps the Lord has warned you that areas of your life that will harm you if you don't do something about it. Perhaps you have tried to barricade yourself from temptation or sinful habits by avoiding the issue. What you can't see won't hurt you, or so you try to convince yourself. Perhaps you've tried to resist temptation through sheer willpower and positive confession. You've discovered how flimsy your self-defense strategy is. Look around; the Lord has provided a way of escape. Walk through it into the light.
— Katherine J Walden
We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.
— Natasha Tsakos
When we’re apart, I can think of nothing but you—of being with you again—and I . . . I’m sorry if I hurt you before. I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear about my feelings, if I wasn’t strong enough to fight for the chance to be with you. I’m going to do that now. I promise. Because I simply cannot imagine choosing a life without you in it.
— Sophie Barnes, A Most Unlikely Duke
When we’re apart, I can think of nothingbut you—ofbeing with you again—andI . . . I’m sorry if I hurt you before. I’m sorryif I wasn’t clear about my feelings, if I wasn’tstrong enough to fight for the chance to bewith you. I’m going to do that now. I promise.Because I simply cannot imagine choosing alife without you in it.
— Sophie Barnes, A Most Unlikely Duke
Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature
— Munia Khan
A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Don't try to fight depression and fear with violent physical or mental exercise. But don't give into them either. Just think. Oh, here they are again, and look past them, as if you were looking over someone's shoulder at something beyond. Fix your mind on what's be
— Marcia Willett, A Summer in the Country
One of the most important words for interacting is MISTAKE. Because is a reaction of TRY, proposes LEARNING, the meaning stirs with as PEOPLE. Do not give up on your dreams for fear of making mistakes!
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Without the fear of God it is impossible to say ‘No’ to temptations and evil.
— Sunday Adelaja
If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone.
— Dada Bhagwan
Without the fear of God it is impossible to say ‘No’ to temptations and evil
— Sunday Adelaja
She'll be your dance partner, Jordan""Her? She's much too good. I'm scared!""Remember the feeling. Someday you'll want to write about it, and then it'll be good to know how the fear feels and to go ahead and dance all the same.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
— Akshay Vasu
Principles can actually grow and overwhelm the things you are afraid of.
— Sunday Adelaja
Love should never mean having to live in fear.
— DaShanne Stokes
I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud
— N.L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls
A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Inside a jihadi brain, the neuropsychological elements of aggression and rage run rampant, due to socio-political conditions. These overwhelming mental elements of young souls, when attached to the sacred texts of the Quran, by the authoritarian groups of fundamentalists, become weapons of mass destruction in the pursuit of the exclusive supremacy of one religion over the others.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
In today’s society, the animals known as Homo sapiens have become conditioned to elicit the same kind of fearful response whenever the bell of Islam is rung.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.
— Dada Bhagwan
Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation.
— Dada Bhagwan
When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.
— Dada Bhagwan
What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! ‘We’ are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self’s world].
— Dada Bhagwan
Fear or anxiety is a normal part of living. It’s the body’s way of telling us something isn’t right. It keeps us from harm’s way and prepares us to act quickly in the face of danger.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
What is the essence of Vitrag? Fearlessness!
— Dada Bhagwan
Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Being afraid is part of living, Rory, just as much as being scared is part of being courageous. You can only be happy when you’re brutally honest with yourself.
— Winna Efendi, Some Kind of Wonderful
If you're not scared of the dark, it hasn't been dark enough.
— Ashly Lorenzana
I don't want to swim on the surface anymore and I never want to pretend again that I know you completely. Let me dive deep inside you, take me in and allow me to look into your secrets, make me feel every breath I take and crave for it more. Carry me to your darker side where you are afraid to allow anyone. Pull me deep inside and make me one of your secrets.
— Akshay Vasu
The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He didn’t reckon that God owed him anything. He reckoned that he’d had it all, and wasted it. Burning lakes and howling fiends had just never seemed that convincing, perils hardly fit to frighten naughty children.He turned over, staring up at the darkess.Damned…having found out now what hell was really like.
— Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm
Love is the force behind success in all aspects of life. Fear is what holds everyone back from achieving their dreams and attaining success.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
It is better to live alone in DARKNESS than to be in LIGHT with people full of darkness INSIDE.
— Sungkun Siddiqi
Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.
— Stephen King, The Stand
What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it’s a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it’s fear that I’m too inadequate to follow God’s.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Childish certainty that nothing could get him while under the covers wasn't much comfort, but it was a start.
— Marybeth Niederkorn, Small Town Tales: Volume 1
If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.
— Brandy Nacole, Deep in the Hollow
Don’t you just love meeting new people in new places? It means I can be whoever I want to be. And guess what, sweet’eart? Today…I choose to be your worst nightmare.
— S.R. Crawford, No Secrets: Remastered
Long ago there was a little boy who lived in the wood with his father and his sister. One night, the three of them were out collecting firewood when they heard a low, delicate whimper. The father realised it was an injured animal and ordered the children to fetch water from the lake, whilst he followed the sound. Hours past but the father did not return. The children became fearful for their father’s safety and in their moment of fright, they disobeyed their father in order to find him. 	And find him they did. However, he was no longer the man he once was. Both his eyes were slit through their centre, oozing blood down the paleness of his face. His neck had been torn open. The entirety of his midsection was split but nothing, not one, single organ, seemed to be left within. Each limb still remained, however they had been dragged, with some exceptional force, in the opposite direction to which they were designed. 	The children screamed and ran, though the image of their father’s mangled corpse seemed to chase after them. They slept. Within the whisper of the wind came the sweet tune of a woman’s song. The little girl awoke to the feeling of happiness, security and motherly love that the song carried with it. She needed to find the woman it had come from. Leaving her brother, she took off into the wood to try and find the singer.	The little boy quickly entered into a spit of panic when he found his sister missing. He didn’t know whether he should call out for her, look for her or wait. But waiting could mean the worst, he thought, and so he took off into the woods after her. He had searched everywhere, every dark corner and decrepit tree, before reaching the lake. The moon reflected off its black surface, which drew his attention to something bobbing within the ripples. 	It was a leg. When he caught sight of the foot, the boy fell to his knees. He recognised the shoe. It was his sister’s shoe; his sister’s leg. Soon enough, the other body parts came drifting to join the leg, forming a rough manifestation of what was once his sister’s living body. Firstly, there was a head facing down in the water, then arms seemingly blue under the moonlight, and lastly a torso coated in her favourite dress. He felt sick, lost, terrified to his very core. 	Just as thoughts of never being whole again began to pain his chest, the boy heard the snapping of a twig behind him. He dared to turn around but all he found was a small, black-furred wolf. The wolf approached him timidly, whining deep in its throat to say to the boy that he too was lonely and afraid. The boy put out his hand for the wolf to join him and they sat together. Perhaps he would be OK. Perhaps all that had happened had led to this; something new. He rustled the fur of his new friend, starting with its back then its ear before going under its snout. 	His hand touched something wet and sticky. He drew it from the wolf to get a better look, only to find a crimson substance now clinging to his small hands. Blood. The wolf turned on the boy as its eyes became a pale blue before thwack! He tore the boy’s face from his head…
— S.R. Crawford, Bloodstained Betrayal
Is there any fear in love?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The whole journey of renunciation, or starting to say yes to life, is first of all realizing that you've come up against your edge, that everything in you is saying no, and then at that point, softening. This is yet another opportunity to develop loving-kindness of yourself, which results in playfulness--learning to play like a raven in the wind.
— Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
The man without emotions is the one to fear.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
And then I tasted a sharp acid rising in my stomach. It is an acquired taste, the essence of fear.
— Kathy Hatfield, Secret Storms: A Mother and Daughter, Lost then Found
You are not weak. People like us, we're brave. We're the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting.
— Jen Wilde
Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
— Richie Norton
When people call it [depression] I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state … Well this - isn’t a state. This is a feeling. I feel it all over. In my arms and legs … All over. My head, throat, butt. In my stomach. It’s all over everywhere. I don’t know what to call it. It’s like I can’t get enough outside it to call it anything. It’s like horror more than sadness. It’s more like horror. It’s like something horrible is about to happen, the most horrible thing you imagine – no, worse than you can imagine because there’s the feeling that there’s something you have to do right away to stop it but you don’t know what it is you have to do, and then it’s happening, too, the whole horrible time, it’s about to happen and also it’s happening, all at the same time. … Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. … That’s the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh-sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It’s like what’s the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower.
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Wednesday, March 23 I know now that I love Clarimonda. That she has entered into the very fiber of my being. It may be that the loves of other men are different. But does there exist one head, one ear, one hand that is exactly like hundreds of millions of others? There are always differences, and it must be so with love. My love is strange, I know that, but is it any the less lovely because of that? Besides, my love makes me happy.If only I were not so frightened. Sometimes my terror slumbers and I forget it for a few moments, then it wakes and does not leave me. The fear is like a poor mouse trying to escape the grip of a powerful serpent. Just wait a bit, poor sad terror. Very soon, the serpent love will devour you."The Spider
— Hanns Heinz Ewers, Nachtmahr: Strange Tales
That's what I like most about her; she isn't fearless. She's scared, but she keeps fighting. She has moments of doubt, when she runs away, but she comes back. She doesn't give up. Sometimes she fails, she falls down, she makes mistakes. She's real.
— Jen Wilde
Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?
— Greg Bear, Blood Music
… the secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power.
— Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right when he claimed, 'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends up in folly.' Political activists are more inclined, though, to heed an observation from Richard Nixon: 'People react to fear, not love. They don't teach that in Sunday school, but it's true.' That principle, which guided the late president's political strategy throughout his career, is the sine qua non of contemporary political campaigning. Marketers of products and services ranging from car alarms to TV news programs have taken it to heart as well.The short answer to why Americans harbor so many misbegotten fears is that immense power and money await those who tap into our moral insecurities and supply us with symbolic substitutes.
— Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear “staying stuck.” We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying. 
— Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Fear is the glue that holds us together.
— Nina G. Jones, Take Me with You
Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.
— Stephen King, The Stand
People hate what they know and fear what they don't.
— Min Kim
Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere inside there. But some of us get so much used to it that we start feeling peaceful in there and we start spending more time in it. One weird thing about darkness is, we meet ourselves there. Who are very different from what we are. And once we start speaking with them we become addicted to that kind of conversations. We fall in love with the same thing that we tried to run away from out whole life.
— Akshay Vasu
It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.
— Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
You can hide from others, but you can't hide from yourself.
— Maite
He stood in a room, looking around, seeing thousands of himself. He banged the walls made of mirrors, but they wouldn't break. Thier laugh filled his heart and with fear, he curled up and sat there. And then She came out of nowhere and wrapped her arm around him. She held his hand, together they got up and walked towards a wall. He raised his head and looked at the reflections, but all he saw there was only him. She turned and smiled at him and touched the wall. It cracked and shattered into pieces. She inside him broke all the walls around him. He was free, he was not held and haunted by his reflections anymore.
— Akshay Vasu
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
— George Washington Carver
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.
— Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
I'm sitting in front of the TV, watching Jerry Springer, and it makes me think of how many mad people there are in the world, and whether everyone is mad deep down, they just pretend they're not, and it's the people in asylums or on Jerry Springer who are the honest ones. I have a notebook and a chewed-up pen, and I'm trying to think of a topic for the Youth Issues speech. Mrs Thomas says she thinks I have a lot to say, but I don't. Nothing I can put words to anyway. I could talk about bullying, or alcoholism, but I don't think I could speak about that out loud, it's too real, and it'd be like I was standing up there naked. More than naked. It would be like my skin was all peeled off and I was just standing there with my heart all bloody and thumping in my rib cage for everyone to see.
— Megan Jacobson, Yellow
You may be surprised and encouraged to learn that while inability to deal with fear may look and feel like a psychological problem, in most cases it isn’t. I believe it is primarily an educational problem, and that by reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.
— Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
The older you grow, the younger your fears grow!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
No such thing as the right time, situation or place. You have all it takes. Just dig within. Exhume all the greatness inside of you and transform the world with an inexhaustible drive and without fear of limitations.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.
— James Rozoff
I have too much doubt. It’s the bastard child of fear. I hate fear. So doubt sidles up next to determination in my heart. It doesn’t outweigh it. They coexist.
— Kim Holden, So Much More
So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
Fear feeds the imagination.
— Joubert
For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.
— Jermaine Watkins, The Heart Train: Episode 1 of the Hartford Series Singles
I think I’ll give the Cage of Death a miss too,” I said. Crocodiles were fascinating creatures, like living dinosaurs, but they could do their living over there somewhere, far away from me.
— Renee Conoulty, Don't Mean a Thing
So many people are afraid of the ending of their life on earth. Then there are others who are afraid of not being able to leave after their bodies have long failed them. There's nothing at all to be afraid of. Death is the last lesson in the school of life. It is the final stage of growth. Death is the one event that is designed to remove all of your remaining fears. Someday you will find that the things you were most afraid of, like death, were only illusions.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
There’s a big difference between the head and the heart. Fear lives in the head. Love lives in the heart. The head thinks it knows it all but the heart is always right.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Love is the most powerful force on earth. The end of fear is where love begins. Then nothing can overcome you.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.
— Brunonia Barry, The Fifth Petal
Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
The panic crawled throughout his limbs like a million tiny newborn spiders.
— Calvin  Demmer, Happy Dark Year
In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear – sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.
— Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka
You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Deep Blue
You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power.
— Stephen King, It
If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all.
— C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady
Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.
— Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
It's the fear that kills us, Leah," Jende said. "Sometimes it happens and it's not even as bad as the fear. That is what I have learned in this life. It is the fear.
— Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers
When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
— Seneca
The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.
— Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
She said, “Only the weak are afraid to appear so.
— Andrew Kaufman, Born Weird
The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist
— José Saramago, Seeing
When I don’t take action in spite of doubt and fear, I lose 100%.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for their mothers while you twisted a blade in their guts and snarled your scorn into their ears. You will not confess that you wake in the night, covered in sweat, heart hammering, shrinking from the memories. You will not talk of that, because that is the horror, and the horror is held in the heart’s hoard, a secret, and to admit it is to admit fear, and we are warriors.We do not fear. We strut. We go to battle like heroes. We stink of shit.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer
When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.
— Ann Voskamp
Modesty is fear.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.
— Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong
Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.
— Taylor Patton
Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.
— Kamand Kojouri
Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am afraid of everybody else's secrets
— Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season
There is something to be said for the night. The darkness holds a sense of promise, as if anything could happen. Maybe something good, like a handsome stranger or something with snarling teeth that whispers pretty things as it eats you. Thus, the night is a test. A test of fear and the sweet promise of pain.
— Meg Collett, Fear University
If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.
— Meg Collett, Fear University
Then this God does exist according to you?""He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there is no pain, but in the fear of the stone is the pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces. 
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.
— Meg Collett, Fear University
Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.
— Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes
Hide in the morrow. No one will look for you there.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I can't change it now, and besides, I like who those years made me into,
— Meg Collett, Fear University
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Which is colder, the hand or the gun?
— Anthony Liccione
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.
— John Glenn
There are three things that stop people from becoming their best, "fear" "anger" and "greed." The antidote to fear is action, the cure for anger is gratitude and the medicine to greed is love.
— Sesan Kareem
And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.
— Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy
About time,” Brianna said.“Hey, sorry, we were kind of busy,” Quinn snapped. “And I didn’t exactly realize I was on a schedule.”“I don’t like what I have to do here,” Brianna said. She handed Quinn the note.He read it. Read it again.“Is this some kind of joke?” he demanded.“Albert’s dead,” Brianna said. “Murdered.”“What?”“He’s dead. Sam and Dekka are off in the wilderness somewhere. Edilio’s got the flu, he might die, a lot of kids have. A lot. And there are these, these monsters, these kind of bugs . . . no one knows what to call them . . . heading toward town.” Her face contorted in a mix of rage and sorrow and fear. She blurted, “And I can’t stop them!”Quinn stared at her. Then back at the note.He felt his contented little universe tilt and go sliding away.There were just two words on the paper: “Get Caine.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I love you, Jeremy.”He still felt it, that wince of doubt. The urge to push her away. She said it so simply. As though there was nothing easier, more natural in the world. The words themselves hung in the air, so tiny, so bare.Jeremy felt as though she’d thrust a frail, delicate, birdlike thing into his big, clumsy hands, charging him to keep it safe. And God forgive him, his first impulse was to shove it away. He would destroy it, surely. In his desperation, he would grasp it so tightly it would break into a thousand pieces—and his own heart would break along with it.
— Tessa Dare, Goddess of the Hunt
What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sense to be afraid
—  it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we faced it well.
Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man is afraid of something … he will start losing interest in sex. And, eventually he may become impotent.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
She had almost felt relieved when she was arrested. The thing she had dreaded, feared, run from had happened. When it came, she was strangely liberated from the fear. She couldn't dread what had already come to pass. She didn't have to anticipate the horror when the horror was right there. With her arrest came a certain calm, a quiet comfort. It had come. She had known it would and she could stop fighting.
— Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Big Wave
Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
It's scary to trust and fall in love with someone, isn't it? You accept someone and welcome them to your world. You show each of your voids. You show how dark it is, inside you and how scary it is, to stay there. And one day they will leave. Adding more voids into you making the older one a lot bigger, and making you get darker and scarier than before inside.
— Akshay Vasu
Jija killed his own son for what a completely different person did, long before that son's birth. This, more than anything, helps her finally understand that there is no reasoning with her father's hatred.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
We must learn to live with danger, " he now said to Kino. "Do you mean the ocean and the volcano cannot hurt us if we are not afraid?" Kino asked. "No," his father replied. "I did not say that. Ocean is there and volcano is there. It is true that on any day ocean may rise into storm and volcano may burst into flame. We must accept this fact, but without fear. We must say, 'Someday I shall die, and does it matter whether it is by ocean or volcano, or whether I grow old and weak?' " "I don't want to think about such things," Kino said. "it is right for you not to think about them," his father said. "Then do not be afraid. When you are afraid, you are thinking about them all the time. Enjoy life and don not fear death - that is the way of a good Japanese.
— Pearl S. Buck
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
We shall not fear the unknown. We live in the unknown... make the unknown known today as tomorrow is yet to come. Never fear it. Be grateful to see it".
— Rhouveyzz
It’s not about the elimination of fear. Rather it’s about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
Tell me about those days, when you stood on a thin line between dreams and reality, watching it get disappear slowly. All of a sudden there is no difference between both. And you get tore apart into nothingness. Where your mind always asked you to be awake, scared of being haunted by dreams and your heart asked you always to fall asleep, to escape from the hands of reality, because it haunted you too.
— Akshay Vasu
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
— Les Brown
The medicine to fear, these days, is a dose of reality! Because these days the reality is far worse than the disembodiment of the ideal. People today are afraid of the disembodiment of the ideal, because they think the ideal is the reality. A rabbit that does not know it lives in the ground with snakes, is constantly afraid of the sea hawk possibly finding its way to land, to destroy the rabbit’s meadowy existence. In the meadow, living in fear of the sea hawk, not knowing the hole in the ground next to its burrow belongs to a snake. I show the rabbit where the snakes are, thus eliminating its hazardous fear. Misplaced fear is hazardous fear. Fear well placed is a skill for survival.
— C. JoyBell C.
Yes!" He says. "Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.
— M.D. Elster, Four Kings
When fears are screaming in your ears, try to hear the whispers of your faith and run into that dark path. That is how you reach the paradise.
— Akshay Vasu
Murderer!" he said suddenly in a quiet but clear and distinct voice.Raskolnikov went on walking beside him. His legs felt suddenly weak, a cold shiver ran down his spine, and his heart seemed to stand still for a moment, then suddenly began throbbing as though it were set free. So they walked for about a hundred paces, side by side in silence. The man did not look at him."What do you mean... what is... Who is a murderer?" muttered Raskolnikov hardly audibly."You are a murderer," the man answered still more articulately and emphatically, with a smile of triumphant hatred, and again he looked straight into Raskolnikov’s pale face and stricken eyes.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer is a cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer that has yet to arrive, that is on the sidelines waiting, along with fate and the story of your life, of everything bad that can happen, some of which will happen—but right now, they’re purely theoretical. It is up to the adolescent’s imagination to make them bleed, to make them hurt.
— John M. Keller, Abracadabrantesque
They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.
— Luigina Sgarro
Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape
— C.S. Lewis
Fear? There is no fear when you ride a MotoGP bike. If there is fear, you don't enjoy it. And if you don't enjoy it, you'd better stay at home.
— Álvaro Bautista Arce
Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
fear is the starter pistol to life's greatest moments
— Joey in 'Melissa and Joey'
At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.
— M.M.  Scott, Of Life and Love