“I was afraid of the boogeyman until I was fourteen or fifteen. The boogeyman was the devil who could appear in any form. Before I went to sleep, I had to look under my bed. The boogeyman was death and death was the greatest fear of all.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home. It changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap, maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to g…”— Alex Karev, imdb.com
“When I took the trash out at night, I sometimes felt his eyes, tried to pretend he wasn’t the thing he claimed to be protecting me from.”— Raven Leilani , narrativemagazine.com
“Do you know how a lost heart fears At the thought of reminiscing And how lips that taste of tears Lose their taste for kissing? You don't know how hearts burn For love that can, not live yet never dies Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes You don't know what love is”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the mo…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“The other day, you walked by me with your friends and I could feel the pity in your stare. Don’t you do that. Don’t you look at what I had for you and call it weak. Not when you were the one afraid of it.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com
“If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I learned that I had no need to feel ashamed, that I could make amends for the wrongs I had done, that I could address the fear I had always fled, that I could re-evaluate my feelings of worthlessness.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having p…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“I have a deep fear of being too much. That one day I will find my someone, and they will realize that I am a hurricane. That they will step back and be intimidated by my muchness.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“I love being horribly straightforward. I love sending reckless text messages (because how reckless can a form of digitized communication be?) and telling people I love them and telling people they are absolutely magical humans and I cannot believe they really exist. I love saying, Kiss me harder, an…”— Rachel C. Lewis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don’t love you, ones who hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it f**ks me up.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“If anything happens in the daytime, we ask what it is and are not so frightened; but if there is a noise at night, terror seizes on all our senses.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Before men decline into old age, even in the very bloom of youth, they are involved in many troubles, and they cannot escape from the cares, weariness, sorrows, fears, griefs, inconveniences, and anxieties to which mortal life is subject.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“It’s just that I’m so tired, I’m so tired, I'm—If I could just sleep a little bit, just a little bit—I’m just so exhausted. You see, if you fear something enough, you can make it happen.”— Gweneth Paltrow, Sylvia Plath, amazon.com