“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”— Rick Yancey, amazon.com
“Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”— Edmund Hillary, goodreads.com
“I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.com
“My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.com
“I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”— Peter Cameron, amazon.com
“She loves you, you know? She’s just afraid of losing you, so she holds you far away. Funny how we are, isn’t it?”— Pierce Brown, amazon.com
“I love you—I do—but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me. We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”— Levithan, David, amazon.com
“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“To describe my despair would be impossible. No words could tell it. I was buried alive, with the prospect before me of dying of hunger and thirst.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you, there's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice. I'm shameless now, I'm nameless now, I'm nothing now, I'm no on…”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with pleasures.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”— William S. Burroughs, goodreads.com
“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.”— Wayne Dyer, pin.it
“I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I admit, I was afraid to love. Not just love, but to love her. For she was a stunning mystery. She carried things deep inside her that no one has yet to understand, and I, I was afraid to fail, like the others. She was the ocean and i was just a boy who loved the waves but was completely terrified t…”— Testy McTesterson, instagram.com