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91. “Don’t you see that I cannot be composed, I cannot reconcile myself, because there is no other reality but loneliness for me and before I am dragged back into isolation I will clasp and grasp and claw in fright even at you without consciousness – even I – and I am afraid that I cannot survive if I have to go on into myself.”
Allen Ginsberg
Loneliness, Fear, Vulnerability, Isolation, Emotional Intensity, Existential Despair
94. “Why are you afraid to submit to the annihilation of such stupid meaningless unreal knowledge. This is the abyss. Everything is green, love, without the logical fantastic equivocations that we invent so that we won't actually have to face each other.” Allen Ginsberg Fear, Knowledge, Love, Authenticity, Existential Challenge, Philosophical Inquiry
95. “Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.” Allen Ginsberg Love, Imperfection, Forgiveness, Beauty, Fear, Philosophical Reflection
96. “There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition – for why should I not so term it? – served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.” Edgar Allan Poe Superstition, Fear, Consciousness, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Complexity, Existential Insight
97. “My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.” Edgar Allan Poe Despair, Fear, Existential Dread, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Poetic Imagery
100. “Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility.” Edgar Allan Poe Horror, Fear, Psychological Insight, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Turmoil, Existential Dread
102. “For many hours the immediate vicinity of the low framework upon which I lay had been literally swarming with rats. They were wild, bold, ravenous – their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited but for motionless on my part to make me their prey. “To what food,” I thought, “have they been accustomed in the well?” Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Survival, Nature, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Tension, Existential Dread
104. “We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss – we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink away from the danger. Unaccountably we remain... it is but a thought, although a fearful one, and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness of the delight of its horror. It is merely the idea of what would be our sensations during the sweeping precipitancy of a fall from such a height... for this very cause do we now the most vividly desire it.” Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Desire, Mortality, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Conflict, Existential Reflection
105. “All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel – although he neither saw nor heard – to feel the presence of my head within the room.” Edgar Allan Poe Death, Perception, Fear, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Poetic Imagery
106. “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.” Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Perception, Madness, Philosophical Insight, Moral Dilemma, Psychological Horror
116. “Just as not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent man is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and ‘bounders’ that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors.” Marcel Proust Intelligence, Fashion, Social, Fear, Mental Ingenuity, False Appearances
117. “We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.” Hermann Hesse Fear, Transience, Creation, Mortality, Art, Existence
120. “Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?” Hermann Hesse Self, Struggle, Happiness, Fear, Personal Conflict, Existential Reflection
Fear Quotes by Famous Authors
91. “Don’t you see that I cannot be composed, I cannot reconcile myself, because there is no other reality but loneliness for me and before I am dragged back into isolation I will clasp and grasp and claw in fright even at you without consciousness – even I – and I am afraid that I cannot survive if I have to go on into myself.”
Allen Ginsberg Loneliness, Fear, Vulnerability, Isolation, Emotional Intensity, Existential Despair
94. “Why are you afraid to submit to the annihilation of such stupid meaningless unreal knowledge. This is the abyss. Everything is green, love, without the logical fantastic equivocations that we invent so that we won't actually have to face each other.”
Allen Ginsberg Fear, Knowledge, Love, Authenticity, Existential Challenge, Philosophical Inquiry
95. “Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.”
Allen Ginsberg Love, Imperfection, Forgiveness, Beauty, Fear, Philosophical Reflection
96. “There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition – for why should I not so term it? – served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.”
Edgar Allan Poe Superstition, Fear, Consciousness, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Complexity, Existential Insight
97. “My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.”
Edgar Allan Poe Despair, Fear, Existential Dread, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Poetic Imagery
100. “Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility.”
Edgar Allan Poe Horror, Fear, Psychological Insight, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Turmoil, Existential Dread
102. “For many hours the immediate vicinity of the low framework upon which I lay had been literally swarming with rats. They were wild, bold, ravenous – their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited but for motionless on my part to make me their prey. “To what food,” I thought, “have they been accustomed in the well?”
Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Survival, Nature, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Tension, Existential Dread
104. “We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss – we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink away from the danger. Unaccountably we remain... it is but a thought, although a fearful one, and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness of the delight of its horror. It is merely the idea of what would be our sensations during the sweeping precipitancy of a fall from such a height... for this very cause do we now the most vividly desire it.”
Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Desire, Mortality, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Conflict, Existential Reflection
105. “All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel – although he neither saw nor heard – to feel the presence of my head within the room.”
Edgar Allan Poe Death, Perception, Fear, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Poetic Imagery
106. “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.”
Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Perception, Madness, Philosophical Insight, Moral Dilemma, Psychological Horror
116. “Just as not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent man is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and ‘bounders’ that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors.”
Marcel Proust Intelligence, Fashion, Social, Fear, Mental Ingenuity, False Appearances
117. “We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”
Hermann Hesse Fear, Transience, Creation, Mortality, Art, Existence
120. “Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?”
Hermann Hesse Self, Struggle, Happiness, Fear, Personal Conflict, Existential Reflection
