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“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.”

Humans Long Feelings Lasts Fear Human Nature Horror Incapable

Book:A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

Source: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”

Men Two Moving Motivation Fear Interest Courage Human Nature Levers

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.”

Hate Fear Human Nature Hatred

Book:Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...

Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

Inspirational Heart Made Fear Plans Human Nature Capacity Guilt Hollowness

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”

Life Inspirational Reason Political Politics Fear Justice Influence Honest Events Human Nature Honesty Fields Politician Concerned Rage Triumph Good Will

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

Men Humans Desire Fear Psychology Greater Human Nature Wise Words Length Avoiding

Book:The Da Vinci Code: A Novel

Source: The Da Vinci Code: A Novel

“Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.”

World Humans Humanity Fear Nature Existence Human Nature Human Existence Variables

Author:Aberjhani

“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.”

Past Fear Human Nature Lessons Bitter Disappointed Cynic

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”

Ifs Love Children States Shows Dies Names Fear Hell Society Atheism Childhood Human Nature Adults Destruction Rage Dread Decay Corpses Inner Child Children Playing Unhappy Childhood

Author:Brian Aldiss

“The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.”

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams that it is true; but at the same time he does not want really to know it? May not human life on this earth be a kind of frozen fear of man at what he could possibly be? And every move he makes might not these moves be just to hide this awful fact? To twist it into something which he feels would make him rest and breathe a little easier? What man is is perhaps too much to be borne by man...”

Philosophy Fear Human Nature Man

Book:The Outsider

Source: The Outsider