Passion is the fire that can burn through fear.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Fear is the greatest prison. Hope is the greatest freedom.

Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing.

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We

Bits of it floating in the air, he said. It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's there and it's all coming down, covering everything. You're breathing it in. You...

He - it - was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

I watched the sky as it turned from silver to grey to the colour of rain. Even the clouds tried to look the other way.

Gloria screamed, but nothing came out. She could feel the scream in her throat, but it was clinging there, too scared to climb out of her mouth. Raymond might have screamed, too -- he wasn't sure. His...

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.

Her expression changed then, becoming fearful rather than merely pained. It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person...

The cancer I don't have is everywhere, now.

You're scared now, I can smell it... Benito Ramirez

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

In the flush of love's lightwe dare be braveAnd suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be

We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train...

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf 's tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.

Screw your courage to the sticking-place

Selena was born in a generation that had grown up on the edge. She'd grown up knowing that the little child starlet who voiced Anne-Marie on 'All Dogs Go to Heaven', Judith Barsi, had been murdered...

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Aukeman quotes Norman Mailer:"No wonder then that these have been the years of conformity and depression. A stench of fear has come out of every pore of American life and we suffer from a collective...

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country … we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the...

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to...