If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

Ivo Andrić

Mots clés fear world signs-near-the-travel-road

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One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Ivo Andrić

Mots clés fear human

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...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)

Benjamin Hale

Mots clés fear meaning

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I make a joke of it, but... but I'm afraid of death." He straightened up and turned to look into Joseph's eyes. Joseph saw the fear there and was shocked by the intensity of it. "Are you afraid to die, Joseph?"
Joseph considered for a moment, then shook his head. "I'm not afraid to now, but then I'm not dying now. When I come to that moment, I will probably be... what's the right word? Maybe frightened in a way that you're frightened when an experience lies before you you've never had.
"No more than that?"
"I hope not.

Gilbert Morris

Mots clés fear death afterlife death-and-dying dying

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Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

Brennan Manning

Mots clés fear god death jesus

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Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Herman Melville

Mots clés fear education ignorance

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Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.

Kelli Wilson

Mots clés fear truth-telling

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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Jack Lemmon

Mots clés fear failure jack-lemmon

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Mots clés fear life love world rent

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В детстве Корнелий читал о страхе птицы, которую после неволи выпускают из окна. Открывшийся мир кажется ей жутко громадным и полным угроз. Она рвётся назад - в комнату, в привычную клетку!..

Vladislav Krapivin

Mots clés fear freedom

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