“Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.”— Eugene Delacroix, amazon.com
“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“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
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”— John Green, amazon.com
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”— Andy Warhol, goodreads.com
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com
“I often don’t say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you’d never guess from looking at me.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“But what shall I do when instead of a heart this fear is beating in my body?”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love o…”— John Lennon, goodreads.com
“...but what am I supposed to do if this fear, and not my heart, is beating in my body?”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can’t help it. It’s the way they’re built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.”— Stephen King, amazon.com