It’s not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That’s what I’m left with:...

I am more than the sum of my fear.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave of fiery rage. My body continues to shake and tremble. It is alternately...

We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or ‘feelings’. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist’s definition...

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

Everything is worse…if you think something is looking at you.

We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew...

Fear, jealousy and anger are manifestations of a lack of being in love. Being in love is possible only when you are in love with yourslef first. Self-love is an inborn quality that has been...

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and...

If you don’t stop fear, fear will stop you. Somebody’s gotta stop. My advice? Don’t let it be you. Whatever IT is. Do IT afraid

Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of war,The voice of one who went before,But most of all the mirror’s gaze,Which counts us out...

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn’t hide. You didn’t wait for the perfect moment to settle on...

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.

Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented...

Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok’st; yet grossly fear’stThy death, which is no more.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Don’t be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.

My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they’re going to pass some laws, … I can just see people overreacting and doing things that would invade people’s privacy or...

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

I know it’s painful growing,I bet the changes was painful too.But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don’t belong. Obviously.

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!

…having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

It’s not: I jumped in, and it was cold. No. It was cold, and I jumped in. Always arrange a sentence so you appear to be fearless, when in fact you are far less than...

Write what you want to write; don’t fear about who will read it.

It’s too risky to take no risks at all

When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth....

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

Nobody wants to leave what they know to go either to the unknown, or to grandmother’s house.

The thing, whatever it was – and no one was ever sure afterwards whether it was a dream or a fit or what – happened at that peculiar hour before dawn when human vitality is...

Fear is nothing but an enemy of progress. By all means don’t permit it to win.

Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies–mother, I can’t speak of what I shall feel if she dies.” His voice was choked in his throat.

I amasking myself what is fear not what I am afraid of.I lead a certain kind of life; I think in a certain pattern; I havecertain beliefs and dogmas and I don’t want those patterns...

He has a very strong fear of additional and increased persecution should he be sent back to Cuba, and we’re taking that concern very seriously, and we’ll act on that basis.

There’s no sense forcing yourself if you don’t feel like it. Tell you the truth, I’ve had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared...

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like...

Fife… simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them...