If you know someone’s fear, you know them.
If you are unable to feel fear, you cannot be courageous.
I’m never afraid. But in my case it’s nothing to be proud of.
I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn’t find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
How much I missed simply because I was afraid of missing it.[Quanta coisa perdi por medo de perder.]
Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can’t help it. It’s the way they’re built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.