„I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot“

„there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.“

—  George MacDonald, libro Lilith

Fuente: Lilith

„The only thing I am afraid of is fear.“

—  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington British soldier and statesman 1769 - 1852

Notes for 3 November 1831.

„There are worser ills to face
Than foemen in the fray;
And many a man has fought because—
He feared to run away.“

—  Richard Hovey American writer 1864 - 1900

Act. iv. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)

„I am very underleveraged. I have a great company. I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not in a braggadocios way. It's because it's about time that this country had somebody running it that has an idea about money.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

„One day our Sodom and Gomorrah would be trampled by some all-powerful foot, and this world which laughed, reveled, and forgot God would be transformed, in its turn, into a Dead Sea. At the end of every period God's foot comes along in this way and tramples the cities of the overindulged belly, the overdeveloped mind. I felt afraid“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, libro Report to Greco

Sometimes it seems to me that this world is another Sodom and Gomorrah just before God's passage above it. I think the terrible foot can already be heard approaching
"Jerusalem", Ch. 20, p. 249
Report to Greco (1965)

„I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.“

—  Suzanne Collins, libro Sinsajo

Fuente: Mockingjay

„There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.“

—  Christopher McDougall American journalist and writer 1962

Fuente: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

„I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton, libro Narcissus in Chains

Fuente: Narcissus in Chains

„Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.“

—  Aung San Suu Kyi State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy 1945

„I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.“

—  Haruki Murakami, libro De qué hablo cuando hablo de correr

Fuente: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

„This is a vicious circle. This is the fishmarket. This is working for survival. This is survival of the fastest. This is the Darwinist capital of the capitalist world. A head afraid is a head haunted. A head haunted is a head hunted. Run for your life. Run from the guillotine to a head hunter who saves your head and raises your salary—so you’ll be caught in the red of the fishmarket buying gadgets to distract your fragile imagination that is cut in the red market of blood—running and escaping—running again—changing your resume to update the fear you feel of being unemployed tomorrow—in the streets—and from there to welfare—and from there to begging.“

—  Giannina Braschi, libro United States of Banana

United States of Banana (2011)

„I am assuming that God exists and I am glad that there is no way to prove this. [Because] I would run through the proof once, and then I'd forget it, and I would never speculate about spiritual things and mysteries otherwise. And, I think, my life would be very incomplete.“

—  Donald Ervin Knuth American computer scientist 1938

AI Podcast, December 30, 2019, Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdBfsXbST8,

„Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.“

—  Twyla Tharp American choreographer 1941

„Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, libro Meditaciones

Fuente: Meditations

„I am accused. I dream of massacres.
I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,
Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
world conceives
Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

„By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of "I am afraid", we say, "I don't want to", or "I don't know how", or "I can't."“

—  Andrea Dworkin Feminist writer 1946 - 2005

Speech at Queens College, City University of New York (March 12, 1975). "The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage", ch. 5, Our Blood (1976).

„When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!“

—  Yuri Gagarin Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space 1934 - 1968

Recalling his meeting with workers in a field, upon his landing, as quoted in "Life on Mars?" by Jesse Skinner in Toro magazine (14 October 2008) http://www.toromagazine.com/epigraph/d8e350a4-e3e5-2b94-5916-3c4e788b808c/Life-on-Mars/index.html

„Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.“

—  Robert Henri, libro The Art Spirit

Fuente: The Art Spirit

„Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.“

—  Dean Koontz American author 1945