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“I'm afraid of old people. They are what I will one day be.”

Book:Ordesa

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“I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy.' He looks at me. 'Is that right? It would explain much about your kind if it's possible to mistake the two.”

Love Humans Fear Mortals Holly Black The Folk Of The Air Jude Duarte The Wicked King Balekin Balekin Greenbriar

Book:The Wicked King

Source: The Wicked King

“Pour la plupart des hommes, l'amour de la justice n'est que la peur de subir l'injustice. (For most men, the love of justice in only the fear of suffering injustice.)”

Fear Justice

Author:François de La Rochefoucauld

“Once,' she said, 'I used to sleep with a piece of wood by my side so that I could defend myself if I were attacked. That's how afraid I was.' 'Afraid of what?' She shook her head. 'Of nothing, of everything.”

Fear Afraid

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“You can't deny the truth of it: it's scary and it's unknown. That's a fact. But it's also a fact that scary and unknown is how everything has always been.”

Fear Being Scared Scary Things Unknowns

Book:Sky Full of Elephants

Source: Sky Full of Elephants

“However frightening the truth may seem we have to face it, becauase being afraid of it won't make it go away. Being afraid only shrinks our minds and makes people invent myths small enough for them to cope with.”

Fear Rationalization Comfortable Beliefs

Book:Midnight Sun

Source: Midnight Sun

“I knew then, as I know now to this day and will always know: Death is not something to be afraid of.”

Life Inspirational Death Fear Acceptance

Book:My Next Breath

Source: My Next Breath

“I am a bird in an open cage singing of the beautiful vastness of the sky to soothe my solitude and dreams but never taking flight.”

Poetry Fear

Book:A Secret Silent Fall

Source: A Secret Silent Fall

“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish.”

Death Fear Mathematics Selfishness Statistics Warfare Probability Payment Geometry Retribution Algebra Machine Guns Bell

Book:The Thin Red Line

Source: The Thin Red Line

“Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.”

Death Fear Existence Scrutiny

Book:The Thin Red Line

Source: The Thin Red Line

“...we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make meanings because meaninglessness terrifies us above all things. More than snakes, even. More than falling, or the dark. We trick ourselves into seeing meanings in things, when in fact all we are doing is grafting our meanings onto the universe to comfort ourselves. We gild the chaos of the universe with our symbols. To admit that something is meaningless is just like falling backward into darkness." (p184)”

Fear Meaning

Book:The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

Source: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

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