“When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.”

“When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.”

J. P. Donleavy book The Ginger Man

“Warrior, when you pledge yourself to the service of a High Priestess, the goal is not to frighten her to death but to protect your lady from death.”

P. C. Cast book Hunted

“Nothing seems to have changed from those days, when Christian lives were more precious than the lives of the “infidels.””

Bruce Fein (1947) American lawyer

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

“Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Felice

“There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”

Frances Moore Lappé (1944) activist against world hunger

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint