„No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero.- Poseidon“

— Rick Riordan

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„Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”“
— Swami Vivekananda
„Around us fear, descendingDarkness of fear above“
— James Joyce
„That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.“
— Paulo Coelho
„What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.“
— Frida Kahlo
„Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat,The mist in my face........No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,The heroes of old;Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears“
— Robert Browning