“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Fear is the beginning, a starting point. Don't treat it like an unscalable wall and let it end your journey before it even begins.”
Source: Bookworm and the Beast
“Waste the air and speak,” the telepathic voice growled, “or I’ll rip your mind to shreds until nothing but a wish to die remains inside it.”
Source: The Jealousy of Jalice
“When we imagine fear as curiosity, we broaden our horizons”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“I can’t go with you,’ he told her. ‘Whatever you have to face down there, you must face it alone.’
‘I understand.’
And she did. It didn’t mean she wasn’t scared, but she was stronger now, altered forever by this journey. The Ceres who had first arrived would not have been capable of walking through that doorway - or more correctly, would not have believed herself capable of it, which was not the same thing. That Ceres was lost, and melancholic, but had forgotten for a while that this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar - only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
Source: The Land of Lost Things
“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
Jon Snow”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“Pain is an attempt to transform fear into something palpable, something physical, into something that has a beginning and an end, something that has a language, a wordless language that says, "There is something here.”
Source: Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist
“Fear banishes all feelings. It causes them to vanish, and pain reinstates them. Pain gives fear a face, a face one can look at. It is a hideous face, and yet it is more bearable than nothing, than the facelessness of fear.”
Source: Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist
“Μην αμφιβάλλεις
γι αυτόν
που σου λέει
πως φοβάται
να φοβάσαι όμως
αυτόν
που σου λέει
πως δεν αμφιβάλλει
- Erich Fried, “Αμφιβολία και Φόβος”
“ich wachse mit einem Männerbild auf
das mir den Hals umdreht”
Source: Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung: dringende Gedichte