In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers...

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly...

The other veteran said “Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don’t is a damn liar

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.

A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.

Obsession. It starts with a spark. A flicker. At the strike of a match. Lying dormant in most of us, obsession feasts on the fumes, breathes in the smoky scent, curing around and in on...

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you...

You feed your fears to grow muscles against you when you run away from what frightens you. Little do you know that it’s frightened when you face it boldly!

People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.

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.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and...

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself

If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you...

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself, to train my body for the real fear when it comes

Fear drives you and makes you better

Embrace the love of God.

Do not fear facing people without your pants; the world is dirtier than your underwear.

There’s a time when it all comes together—what you long for and what you fear—and as tentative as you may feel, you’re driven to continue. At that point, the need to forge ahead is the...

Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body.

His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That’s what mortal terror felt...

And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds–the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave...

Beethoven said that it’s better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and...

I don’t think we’re going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with what’s been going on with oil prices and the hurricane that there’s going to...

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

We’ve been through a lot together the past three or four years. We don’t fear anybody.

Instead of the final judgement, what worries me is the final dream.

That is what love does, it upstages fear.

The last remnants of Deanna the child–the idealist, the sheltered elite–had been torn loose by tonight’s tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new...

A heartbeat later a single pair of orange eyes rose from the darkened depths. Dim at first, then in full brightness of attention they moved up from the floor then glided toward here, drawing closer...

People run away from the love game because they know they won’t win the race.

It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths for monsters. This was an instinct.

Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.