“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.” 
― Guy de Maupassant

“Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.” 
― Margaret Atwood

“If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.” 
― Simon Holt

“Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.” 
― Christopher Hitchens

“I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them” 
― Maurice Sendak

“He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.” 
― Amy Carmichael

“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.” 
― Erica Jong

“I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.”
― Judy Collins