“You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere bu…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I h…”— Hilary Winston, amazon.com
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfa…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”— John Keats, goodreads.com
“All my moments which were not consumed with efforts to escape the cold were absorbed with morbid Poe-like fancies. One night, in a dream, I saw my own corpse, hair stiff with ice and eyes wide open.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“She lay there on a bed that inexorably became a bed of ashes and hot coals, while her imagination dwelt on every conceivable disaster, from his having forsaken her for another woman to his having, somehow, ended up in the morgue. And as the night faded from black to gray to daylight, the telephone b…”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes. With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire, and disappeared into the living-room.”— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“After those paroxysms of deadly horror, when he had howled, flung himself about and tried frantically to tear something away from his eyes, he lapsed into a state of semi-consciousness. Then presently there would loom up once more that unbearable mountain of oppression, which was only comparable wit…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget:…”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Out of fear, I held onto what was easy and familiar for years even though it was at odds with what my soul longed to do – I wanted to be free.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“Fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com