You think you know horror, Irnakk? Horror is looking into the eyes of the Shadowed One, knowing you are about to die… and then being forced to live. Horror is waking each day to see...

…and I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

A bold slave is more powerful than a timid king

You think you’re alone until you realize you’re in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.

You have been so sheltered, Deeta – more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom...

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

I’m afraid of my shadow, and my shadow’s afraid of the light. That’s why Noon is my best friend, and I hang out with him at midnight.

The girl’s face was the color of talcum. Her uncle’s was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane’s was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He’d...

Fear is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their courage.

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed...

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn’t know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

The hoopoe said: ‘Your heart’s congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The world is filth and...

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that...

Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people...

2 + 2 = 5: the sum of all fears

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can’t eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He’d just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish...

the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t.

It’s a public safety issue. If you close down the track, what’s gonna happen out there? Everybody has the fear of illegal street racing.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Dreams are not lands of happiness. It is miscomprehended that bad dreams are nightmares. In truth, the only dreams we have are nightmares. When you are asleep, your brain wanders, bringing up thoughts of hopes...

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

I think most are too afraid to see the truth.

Stop worrying. There is no point to worrying, unless you are actually coming up with a game plan to tackle something. If you are worrying for no reason, stop. Let go and let God. Don’t...

When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn’t been there long. The branches shook with their absent weight and the birds circled above in the riddy mackerel...

unkindness �of ravens”?

It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It’s harder to scare them...

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

Nothing succeeds like Detached success.

But sometimes we are not drawn to that which is different from what we know and fear. Sometimes we are drawn to that which is exactly the same.

Although you hadn’t asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

Don’t be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch”, and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is”.

Listen, I wanted to say, I don’t need your judgment, okay? I have enough to deal with without you contributing, so can we just get on with this so I can get out of here?But...

Forget all that has passed.Forget all you’ve heard.Forget all your preconceived fears.See me for who I am, not who you thought I was.

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says.””Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark.””But they are in my head sometimes, so I...

The sociopaths, that’s the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well, so that the real ones can’t find you.

Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes...

It’s not the loving that hurts this girl; it’s the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload...

Fear has to be the opposite of God because it is the opposite of love. Fear is selfish, needy and focused on you. It makes no sense for God to want you in fear about...

Show me what you’ve written,” I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence,...

The fearthat all thiswill end.The fearthat it won’t.

Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear.

It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.