... nothing is as terrible when it is actually happening to us as when we are dreading, fearing and anticipating it.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

There is so much coldness in the world because we are afraid to be as cordial as we really are.

"Don't Panic." It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

Fear is stronger than arms.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

It all goes back to those German existentialists who tell you how good dread is for you, how it saves you from distraction and gives you your freedom and makes you authentic. God is no more. But Death is.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.