As I’m smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy.”NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME.””WELL, I WAS… FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS.”I don’t know whether he wants me to...

Even brave men, and D’Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

The office is painted with green and red stripes. It’s not painted that way so my mom can experience Christmas 364 more days a year. It represents the stock market, with green symbolizing greed, and...

You can’t live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it’s evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

I fear that important religious sites will become museums for commercial purposes and will no longer be maintained as places of spiritual worship shared by billions across the world,

A fear conquered is a fear harnessed.-Wysteria Morningstar

As long as we acknowledge them, there’s nothing to fear.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper’s aim.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

Sometimes you have to know what you’re willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it’s something we can’t easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen?...

Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendwann genauso der Hybris der Macht zum Opfer, wie die Ohnmächtigen dem Zorn über ihre Machtlosigkeit.

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before...

Everything can change, fluctuate, go into reverse. They strike without much warning, it any at all. It is the curse of the human mind, convincing us that we live in a bubble safe from change.

Do you feel it? The sense of being watched? I do.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

It had nothing to do with whether the water was frightening, or whether he was able to swim or not. No matter how fast he swam, there was something hidden in the water that he...

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

[Fear] can be a pleasure to look at, and I understand how some other humans love to experience his essence. We can sense beauty, even if we don’t see it.

Darkness gives free rein to the mind’s worst imaginings

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless....

Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.

And that fear I’d felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the ordinary world- watching CNN, reading the Times, walking to Sant Ambroeus to have...

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

Caring for someone is scary […] But you can’t fear dictate your life […] Don’t live life hiding behind your past, live right now. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you...

What if the only thing that’s standing between us right now is our fear?

So they can feel alive,” Scatty said.

I’d suffocate. From my own cowardice.

There is a rational part of my brain and it says, Don’t zap them, Warren. Ask questions first, find out who they are and why they’re here, on your doorstep, lurking, banging. Find out their...

I’m not going anywhere,” she told me that night. But until we are old ladies–a cypress age, a Sawtooth age–I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of...

Those who mastered in the art of falling have no fear of rising!

Every day is a grand adventure into the great unknown and you cannot know what lies around the next corner. So, standing in this place, with the unknown before you, you have only two choices:...

What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean...

Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next.

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do...

The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say

Death is the end of the fear of death. […] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death...

The purity of intention repels fear.

A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It’s scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you’re...

Changes in Meaning:Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They feel hopeless, often believing that the future will be as bad as the past,...