“You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.” 
― Shannon L. Alder

“You can see real attitude of man when he's terrified.” 
― Toba Beta

“Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.” 
― Joe Abercrombie

“Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.” 
― Nadia Janice Brown

“Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.” 
― James Boswell

“I musn't run away.” 
― Hideaki Anno

“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.” 
― Edmund Burke

“Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is a part of life, not death. And I—I am the first moment after pain ceases,” he [Death] pronounced. “It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.” 
― Vera Nazarian