“Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.” 
― Maria V. Snyder

“Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid." "What do you think?" his father asked. Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.” 
― George R.R. Martin

“Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}” 
― Alyson Noel

“That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.” 
― David Wroblewski

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” 
― Stephen King

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.” 
― Garth Nix

“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.” 
― Adam Levin

“This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien