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124. “Anyone knowing how to live for the moment, to live in the present as she did, treasuring every little wayside flower with loving care and deriving value from every playful little instant, had nothing to fear from life.”
Hermann Hesse
Moment, Present, Fear, Mindful Living, Appreciation, Life Philosophy
126. “We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.” T.S. Eliot Fear, Shadows, Terrors, Psychological Depth, Human Vulnerability, Existential Anxiety
128. “What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for? Every day is the day we should fear from or hope from. One moment Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection, We say, that was the day. The critical moment That is always now, and here.” T.S. Eliot Day, Fear, Hope, Temporal Significance, Human Perception, Existential Insight
134. “The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.” Simone Weil Soul, Security, Risk, Fear, Human Condition, Existential Boredom
136. “The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.” Orson Scott Card Fear, Death, Chaos, Uncertainty, Trust, Existential Dread
142. “Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life.” Orson Scott Card Trauma, Memories, Fear, Sleep, Unwanted Recollections, Psychological Distress
143. “With his head on the fender and all his limbs relaxed, he felt almost as safe as he felt once when his mother killed a ghost in the passage by carrying him through it in her arms. There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendors and horrors of the world.” E.M. Forster Safety, Comfort, Childhood Memory, Reality, Fear, Emotional Vulnerability
144. “Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?” Alexandre Dumas Passionate Remorse, Notoriety Effects, Indulging Emotions, Moral Dilemmas, Fear, Societal Excuses
146. “The judges then filed out, disclosing as they did so the various apparatus of the question. The marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly rings, on which so many had been stretched crying and screaming. She noticed the three buckets of water.” Alexandre Dumas Judicial Torture, Unwavering Courage, Gruesome Scenes, Justice, Strength, Fear
Fear Quotes by Famous Authors
124. “Anyone knowing how to live for the moment, to live in the present as she did, treasuring every little wayside flower with loving care and deriving value from every playful little instant, had nothing to fear from life.”
Hermann Hesse Moment, Present, Fear, Mindful Living, Appreciation, Life Philosophy
126. “We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.”
T.S. Eliot Fear, Shadows, Terrors, Psychological Depth, Human Vulnerability, Existential Anxiety
128. “What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for? Every day is the day we should fear from or hope from. One moment Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection, We say, that was the day. The critical moment That is always now, and here.”
T.S. Eliot Day, Fear, Hope, Temporal Significance, Human Perception, Existential Insight
134. “The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.”
Simone Weil Soul, Security, Risk, Fear, Human Condition, Existential Boredom
136. “The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.”
Orson Scott Card Fear, Death, Chaos, Uncertainty, Trust, Existential Dread
142. “Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life.”
Orson Scott Card Trauma, Memories, Fear, Sleep, Unwanted Recollections, Psychological Distress
143. “With his head on the fender and all his limbs relaxed, he felt almost as safe as he felt once when his mother killed a ghost in the passage by carrying him through it in her arms. There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendors and horrors of the world.”
E.M. Forster Safety, Comfort, Childhood Memory, Reality, Fear, Emotional Vulnerability
144. “Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?”
Alexandre Dumas Passionate Remorse, Notoriety Effects, Indulging Emotions, Moral Dilemmas, Fear, Societal Excuses
146. “The judges then filed out, disclosing as they did so the various apparatus of the question. The marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly rings, on which so many had been stretched crying and screaming. She noticed the three buckets of water.”
Alexandre Dumas Judicial Torture, Unwavering Courage, Gruesome Scenes, Justice, Strength, Fear
