…fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run.

If we let fear control our decision making we always make the wrong decision.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy,...

I, sometimes, fear that probably I’ll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I’ll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

In this whole screwed-up town, you’re the only thing that’s always been right to me,” he whispered. “I love you, Claire.” She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across...

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.

A Stalin functionary admitted, “Innocent people were arrested: naturally – otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become...

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her...

I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what’s familiar.

… in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only “rights”, the only law, are whatever is willed...

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary salience of the subjects he ‘took on,’ and stayed with,...

When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated,...

That’s definitely something big for us. It shows that we respect everybody but fear no one.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.

The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future,...

I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming.

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

Fears hide within fears….

Don’t be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren’t any good at writing. That fear is normal. I feel it. Most writers who care...

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

Panic and terror aren’t the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.

On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard...

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning’s biased light.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It’s from somewhere else!

Do you know God’s heart?” Do you know Him that intimately? Do you trust Him with all of your heart, instead of leaning unto your own understanding? Most of us don’t, especially when life is...

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don’t fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

There’s always a fear of the unknown as to what liabilities the state might inherit for whatever reason,

Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices of my world telling me that my “little life” is all I have and advising me to...

Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.

To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn’t mean you...

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

… what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we’ve certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great...

Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It’s an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.

Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God’s palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction… and repeat.

When a Truthsayer’s gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory – in her body’s memory. We look down so many avenues of the past… but only feminine avenues… Yet there’s...

She was famous, and she was insane.Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice...

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the...