The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected...

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

After a dazed moment, Specialist Kit Murphy put his arms loosely around her, and Josie Schaeffer clung to him, knowing this man was not her husband, that her husband was never coming back, but for...

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Don’t be afraid of silly ideas.

There is a real threat, and I think the situation we are facing today is quite alarming. We really fear that this particular virus might be at the basis of the first pandemic outbreak of...

Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear,...

You must learn what to fear and what not to fear.

I wasn’t about to tell him that I never said anything to anyone who teased me. I just went along with it like it was my joke too. I wanted everyone to like me…

Fear causes you to feel small and powerless.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I...

People will be focusing on the 10 o’clock number. The market has shifted to a fear of recession, as implied by inversion of the yield curve, and consumer confidence could go a long way to...

Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented...

Smile! Make them comfortable with your size. Deal with their fears and your fears will go away.

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people—that’s not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that...

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the...

I’m awfully happy,” I wrote. I was. Awfully happy and awfully in love, and tomorrow I was marrying Mike.

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself...

Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves. Fear of death is fear of the Unknown. Realize the Wonder, the...

I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I’d had before when I was down here, especially...

You see what power is – holding someone else’s fearin your hand and showing it to them

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in...

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire… Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the...

We fear what we long for. This is the paradox.

Dear God.

Fear is the assassin of dreams

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they’re going to tell your business...

…this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of...

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

The story of 2005 was the dollar defying an overwhelmingly bearish consensus. The dollar has little to fear from a slowdown in U.S. consumption growth as this will eventually lead to an improved external trade...

There is a fear that we’ll have a negative surprise and inflationary fears are keeping people on the sidelines, … There’s no real great impetus out there to drive the market.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them–one or two of them particularly– almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt...

What separates courage from fear our the thoughts we choose to believe.

While this certainly sounds dramatic, we fear it may not be enough. Unless the Big Three break their pattern of deflation and market share losses, it is likely that each of them will experience reductions...

I am petrified of water!” she whispered, as he tried to cajole her to at least put her feet in.

The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been...

Do you what you fear to do.Go where you fear to go.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don’t feel safe to let people in, it is because you’re not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils...

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What’s sadder is when they are Christian.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Before you judge me too harshly, 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...

As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it’s only evident that they’re learning from you. Maybe you taste bad – kind of like medicine, kind of like truth – and to them,...

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.