“Anyone who doesn’t fear God, has no idea at all about Him.”— Toba Beta Related Quotes “He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there for a purpose. It was wired into any creature that had not completely turned its back on its evolutionary inheritance and so remade itself in whatever image it coveted. The more sophisticated you became, the less you relied on fear and pain to keep you alive; you could afford to ignore them because you had other means of coping with the consequences if things went badly.”— Iain M. Banks “We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.”– Jean Anouilh “But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone–”— Hubert Selby Jr.