“I never thought I'd get out of that hole. Never. It's not just the dirt floor and the darkness that gets you. It's the isolation. It's the silence. It breaks something in you. I just kept picturing your face. Your face saved me. I'm here because you saved me.”— Matt Byrne, Jake Ballard, Scott Foley, imdb.com
“I think if you’re afraid of something it probably means you should do it.”— Rick Cleveland, Alan Ball, Bettina, Kathy Bates, imdb.com
“Change has occurred so rapidly for our species that now we are equipped with brains that are super sensitive to threat but also super capable of planning, thinking, forecasting and looking ahead. So we essentially drive ourselves nuts worrying about things because we have too much time and don’t hav…”— Ahmad Hariri, nytimes.com
“Nowhere to go, nothing to do… lost and found in the moment... just practice this. Maybe here is where we find wholeheartedness and our true freedom.”— Joan Halifax, amazon.com
“I hate that. I hate the way you look at me. It's like you're scared of me.”— Jonathan Lisco, David Michod, Andrew "Pope" Cody, Shawn Hatosy, imdb.com
“Fear is powerful. Telling people that somebody’s out to get you, or somebody took your job, or somebody has it out for you, or is going to change you, or your community, or your way of life — that’s an old story and it has shown itself to be powerful in societies all around the world. It is a delibe…”— Barack Obama, politico.com
“Self doubt is fear. Fear breeds failure . . . throw that self doubt in the garbage.”— Serena Williams, twitter.com
“Our minds are constantly putting us in survival mode all day so they can protect us from what they think is death, and unfortunately, our minds think almost everything is death. Starting something new is death. Being judged by someone is death. If you're not number one, if you get made fun of, if yo…”— Kyle Cease, amazon.com
“A dark omnipresent pool of water. It was probably always there, hidden away somewhere. But when the time comes it silently rushes out, chilling every cell in your body. You drown in that cruel flood, gasping for breath. You cling to a vent near the ceiling, struggling, but the air you manage to brea…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“There is no need to go through life handicapped by past experiences. What others say about you doesn’t matter. How they treated you is inconsequential.”— Charles F. Stanley, amazon.com
“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!”— Robert Mugabe, observer.com
“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time…”— Thomas Harris, amazon.com
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”— Harry Truman, presidency.ucsb.edu
“Fear? No one has fear here. The people who struggle for their liberty are never frightened.”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org