The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw... →
I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every... →
Paddy Considine
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley