“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.” 
― Dean Koontz

“Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.” 
― Beth Fantaskey

“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.” 
― Shirley Jackson

“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.” 
― Christopher Paolini

“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid” 
― Robert Liparulo

“The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with silk and song,
'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long;
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration.'
'It is because of these dreams of a sylvan scene:
A bleeding nymph to leave me serene...
I have dreams of a trembling wench.'
'You have dreams,' she said, 'that cannot be quenched.'
'Our passion,' said I, 'should never be feared;
As our longing for love can never be cured.
Our want is our way and our way is our will,
We have the love, my love, that no one can kill.'
'If night is your love, then in dreams you’ll fulfill...
This love, our love, that no one can kill.'
Yet want is my way, and my way is my will,
Thus I killed my love with a sleeping pill.” 
― Roman Payne

“Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.” 
― Phil Kaye

“Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.” 
― Kazuo Ishiguro