Laughter is poison to fear.

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

While I was fearing it, it came,But came with less of fear,Because that fearing it so longHad almost made it dear.There is a fitting a dismay,A fitting a despair.’T is harder knowing it is due,Than...

Though I couldn’t make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one’s imagination.(“Sir Edmund Orme”)

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prize-fighter? Who would stoop to be fearless – like a tree?...

Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with fear and self-doubt. He has difficulty with the prospect of life...

Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously coveting the moment’s arrest of attention gained them by their statements, never had experience with or knowledge...

Sometimes, even when I’m trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could...

Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that...

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

But no one could say he hadn’t gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children...

A thousand times today I’ve started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, “Can you tell me…? But then I’d look into the front seat, at my mother’s silent shaking, my father’s grim profile,...

It’s all right to be afraid. You just don’t let it stop you from doing your job.

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical...

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

…as you know, I don’t believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs…

I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good...

We can’t be brave without fear.

Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar...

Eventually he’d let the answering machine take over and had hidden in his studio. Where he’s hidden all his life. From the monster. He could feel itin their bedroom now. He could feel its tail...

They want to sow fear.

You’d have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn’t seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she...

S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

If you’ve never been afraid, you haven’t had your moment of bravery just yet

If anyone doesn’t agree with you, the truth is on your side.

Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Without her, part of my soul was missing. My heart had left with her, when she moved with Henry here, putting half the planet between us, making me wait for the rare phone calls.

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

Being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared.

If every day you are not paying the price to make your dreams come true, then your everyday is a price that you are paying to stop your dreams coming true.

If you Fear, your Heart will decay

UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can’t get out of bed.It’s something about the crumpled sheetshanging over the edge like junglefoliage, the terry...

That which you fear the most, you attract easiest.

She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows...

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

I sense that some may be seeking to use fear of the Y2K millennium bug to revive failed liability limitation legislation of the past.

The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.

Laughing in the face of danger doesn’t negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.

Day one of our new adventure behind us, we are shocked to learn the hardest lesson of chasing a dream. When you go for it, you don’t escape fear, you land in it. Fear is...

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

Until you can allow yourself to feel without fear of criticism, rejection or abandonment–even self imposed fear–you will not and cannot hear the sound of your voice or the sound of your life.

Why not live for the reaches of Heaven than strive for the depths of Hell? If in the end there is nothing- what have you lost but fear and anger and hate?

Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift...

Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

Isn’t that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?