Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.

It is impossible to be hurt by someone you love contrary to popular belief. Only something or someone you fear can hurt you.

Fight your fears with fierce and your life becomes fabulous.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his arms around him and held him. It’s okay, he said.I was crying. But you didnt wake up.I’m sorry. I...

Fear is like a car. Either you control it, or you let it paralyze you.

I want to be a bird that is not afraid of falling since it’s been flying for so long.

For how long are you going to allow your fears to stand in your way? Life is definitely too short to be waiting around because of fear. You are more courageous than you could ever...

love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been...

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom.

You cannot successfully follow Jesus Christ unless you learn how to overcome fear through his name.John 14:1-4.

She said…she said don’t be scared, we wasn’t born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

Man’s inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. ‘For God and Country’ means a divided allegiance—a 50...

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to...

Your eyes,’ Asha grunted as he looked at him briefly. ‘Turn them off.’ He clicked his fingers and Blitzen’s eyes blinked and when they opened only the whites of his eyes were visible, all he...

Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her...

… there’s fear that keeps you safe, and fear that warns you, and then there’s fear of another sort. The kind that makes you turn on your friends, that irises the world down to one...

…nameless hideous monsters are freaking terrifying. You always fear what you don’t know, what you don’t understand, and the first step to having understanding of something is to know what to call it. It’s a...

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don’t, it doesn’t. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn’t want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand...

Cowards hide […] but warriors lie and wait […] the only difference is whether you’re motivated by fear or purpose.

That’s interesting,” Bitterblue said. “You think a conscience requires fear?

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own...

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a...

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.

He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc…

Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of hope. It’s fascinating to look back on your life and feel as though...

A prickle of awareness made the hairs at the back of his neck stand. A deep chill sank into his flesh to settle around his heart, squeezing it. Skeletal fingers scraped along his spine and...

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women’s bodies.

I have the fear of people knowing what I am fearful of.

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

there was something in her, something that was…pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.

Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.