“All my life, I’ve found it difficult to advocate for myself, to ask for what I want. I fear burdening people so much.”— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com
“The most frightening sound in the world is your own heart beating. No one likes to talk about that, but it is true. In the midst of deep fear, it’s a secret beast pounding a giant fist on some inner door, demanding to get in.”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”— Edward Abbey, amazon.com
“It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”— Woody Allen, amazon.com
“I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”— Eishes Chayil, amazon.com
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”— Clive Barker, amazon.com
“I know I’m still young and there’s a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that’s wrong, that I’m not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I’ll always just be alone.”— Lynne Rae Perkins, amazon.com
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important th…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Somethings in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you’re afraid some day you might lose it.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Have no fear, you will find your way. It’s in your bones. It’s in your soul.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, goodreads.com
“Traumatic experiences are broken bones of the soul. If you engage in the process of recovery, you get stronger. If you don’t, the bones remain porous, with permanent holes inside, and you are considerably weaker.”— Ellen McGrath, psychologytoday.com