"Because fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination." - Cornelia Funke
"Darkness is just dark. Shadows can be anything." - Saira Elain
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
"Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that dissolves in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins." - Charles Stanley
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft
"What is needed, rather than running a way or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about feat, not how to escape from it." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict." - Jim Morrison
"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true in any moment." - Hunter S. Thompson
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." - C. S. Lewis
"Fear makes us feel our humanity." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." - Marianne Williamson
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise." - Cyril Connolly
"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen." - Pliny the Elder