#fear

The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try. ↗

— Susan Mallery

#love #love

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love #love

I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses’ acquaintances, but that will not prevent me from speaking! I may not be as wise as you in the ways of the world, I may not have wounds that run as deeply or scars to wear upon my chest like medals of valor, but at least I don’t retreat and hide the moment a soul comes within reach of my fingers! ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#fear #love #romance #love

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that’s it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free! ↗

— Anton Krotov

#fear #free #government #power #change

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#communication

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#fear #inspirational #courage

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#fear #communication

Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity. ↗

— Brian McGreevy

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Screw your courage to the sticking-place ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fear #courage

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride. ↗

— David Gemmell

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