The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: fear death religion values modern modern-life narcissism modernity evangelism modern-values modernity-is-sickness
...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.
Laird BarronThen they grow away from the earth
then they grow away from the sun
then they grow away from the plants and the animals.
They see no life.
When they look
they see only objects.
The world is a dead thing for them
the trees and the rivers are not alive.
the mountains and stones are not alive.
The deer and bear are objects.
They see no life.
They fear.
They fear the world.
They destroy what they fear.
They fear themselves.
Stichwörter: fear
Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.
Rosemary SutcliffStichwörter: fear silence courage ask
For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge.
Shandy L. KurthStichwörter: fear books writing authors writing-process
-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.
John Ajvide LindqvistWhat he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.
John Ajvide LindqvistIf we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of man serve its own interests.
Paul-Henri ThiryStichwörter: fear religion atheism ignorance
Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.
Carlton D. PearsonFear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.
Ogwo David EmenikeStichwörter: fear inspirational bravery heroism cowardice hero coward ogwo-david-emenike
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