If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.

Security is not having things, it’s handling things.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral...

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food...

I have heard them preach, when I sat in the pew and my feet did not touch the floor, about the final home of the unconverted. In order to impress upon the children the length...

In childhood, the inexplicableness of the world is still vivid and fresh, and sometimes hits with terrifying force.

Don’t talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt,...

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.

if it was meant to be, it will be”, is a pacifying, yet harmful quote, that many spiritualists use to soften the blow of anger. God is not passive. He is relentless, and he will...

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn’t need to be rational or even real to be potent.

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it…and even more to live it.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. […] I’m too old...

Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn’t you know that? We’re afraid of the weather, we’re afraid of powerful men, we’re afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark,...

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It’s hope, turned inside out. You know it can’t go wrong, you’re sure it can’t go wrong…But it might.

We have reached the point of saturation a vicious revolving door of never-ending seasons. Children can’t even take a couple of months’ hiatus from a sport for fear of falling behind their peers and being...

When you leave, I feel like I’m alone with your demons.

Don’t panic, you are never alone in building up your dreams. The storehouse of your success was built by the very supreme father who created it for you.

The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]

Se hai paura di fare una cosa, pensa che sicuramente un idiota la farà al posto tuo.

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don’t like showing their passports. It’s becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn’t mind death threats,...

There’s nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep,” said de Marsay.

All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the...

I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it means; and I don’t hear much of it, only the odour...

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

We fear what we most desire.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we’re afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The day I became a writerit wasn’t the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn’t the first time someone...

Oh, my sweet summer child,” Old Nan said quietly, “what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feetdeep and the ice wind comes howling...

Ne treba se bojati ljudi.- Pa ja se i ne bojim ljudi, nego onog što je neljudsko u njma.

Since there is no one like God, therefore all people should fear Him—in other words, dread His power and be devoted to His person.

I’m not afraid of you, Ghleanna. I’ve never been afraid of you. To be quite honest. . I think you’re amazing. I always have. Since the first time you ignored me.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know.

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave….If there’s no feeling of fear then there’s no need for courage.

He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course – the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Visions and voices and fear and despair cannot be captured by CT scan or measured in the amplitude of EKG waves. Try as we might, we simply cannot predict which of our patients will kill...

There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle—lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with weapons.I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.Never afraid of you.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

… afraid of everything because nothing truly terrible had happened to me, yet.

…she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.