Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we’d starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in...

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion known to man, something deeply inscribed in our nervous system and subconscious. Over time, however, something strange began to happen. The actual terrors that we faced began to...

Men have always hated the wolf.””Why?” said the boy indignantly, suddenly looking very unhappy indeed.”Maybe because they see something in the wolf that they hate and fear in themselves. Maybe because wolves take their sheep...

Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you’re about to do is right.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

I musn’t run away.

Rocco was gripped with the panic he often experienced around her, around himself. He seemed to be both here now and simultaneously five years in the future looking back at this moment, at the loss...

I know it’s hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You’ve gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you.

There is nothing like fear to complicate one’s consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really...

Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to bring them, but merely to please themselves with the contemplation of it,...

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard...

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning’s biased light.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It’s from somewhere else!

Do you know God’s heart?” Do you know Him that intimately? Do you trust Him with all of your heart, instead of leaning unto your own understanding? Most of us don’t, especially when life is...

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don’t fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

There’s always a fear of the unknown as to what liabilities the state might inherit for whatever reason,

Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices of my world telling me that my “little life” is all I have and advising me to...

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

The root of all fear lies in the unknown.

I have a phobia of balloons—and other sharp objects. I also have a fear of too much love—giving, not getting.

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan’s pony shied in terror as a wordless howl burst from his throat. His dripping ears were flat to his skull, fire crackled in his...

Every given day that you are alive to witness on earth, brings some amazing opportunities to rise to the challenge and prove your fears and doubts wrong.

I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening...

Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.””What do you think?” his father asked.Bran thought about it. “can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?””That is the only time a...

I can share my dreams, and even encourage you along the way, but you have to have your own dreams. You have to want for something, and work towards it. Don’t give up in when...

I had turned myself inside out working on the house, and had come to love it; at least, I supposed I loved it. Maybe it wasn’t love so much as a fear of losing everything...

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment…. The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and...

It is only when you fail to control your fears through your thoughts and beliefs that they would start to control you.

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion…

You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1.

Time is nothing, you’ve one breath which is like a ticking-bomb. You do not know when that breath will finish, but it’s a mystery let the inevitability of the last inhalation be your strength to...

Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane of all of man’s accomplishments, and what a merciful accomplishment it was. For...

One thing that shapes our behavior knowingly or unknowingly is fear

I told myself: ‘I am surrounded by unknown things.’ I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he...

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

One aim of the bombers is to put fear in the hearts of Iraqi people and the other intention is to trigger a government collapse.

A champion is someone who has overcome a lot of fear.

Wir sind das Volk!”Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die...

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!”-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That’s why fear should be unknown to us.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Since God is with you and you are with God, you have nothing to fear!

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people...

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.