„As it spoke I discerned, obscurely, a child’s face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed-clothes: still it wailed, “Let me in!”, and maintained its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.“

— Emily Brontë

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„I will practice coming back to the present moment… not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out…“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.“
— Paulo Coelho
„She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.“
— John Lennon
„.. How I paint I do not know myself. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me, I look at what is before me, I say to myself that white board must become something, I come back dissatisfied - I put it away, and when I have rested a little I go to look at it with a kind of fear. Then I am still dissatisfied, because I have still too closely in my mind that splendid nature..“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„If you hear of any incident about me - a fight, a change of clothes, a little extra gel in the hair, don't believe it till you talk to me.“
— Leonardo DiCaprio
„My fire was in all its glory about midnight, and, having made a bark shed to shelter me from the rain and partially dry my clothing, I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers.“
— John Muir