“As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged.” — George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
Tag: fear
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“I have always been dogged by the fear of being found out for a crime I did not realize I had committed, of my public self being stripped away and my unsightly heart revealed.” — Laura van den Berg, “Karolina,” the Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful
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“I guess that’s the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.” — Philip K. Dick, Minority Report
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“The cause of atrocities is generally the violence of Fear.” — John Galsworthy, “The Black Godmother,” Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
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“The reverse of happiness is the fear of soon losing it, and that the reverse of sadness is the pleasure of seeing its end.” — Henry de Montherlant, The Pantin Cemetery, The Paris Review
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“The conquest of fear is of very great importance. Fear is in itself degrading; it easily becomes an obsession; it produces hate of that which is feared, and it leads headlong to excesses of cruelty.” — Bertrand Russell, “What Desires Are Politically Important?,” Nobel Lecture (1950-12-11)
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“Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.” — Richard Baxter, The poetical fragments of Richard Baxter
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“We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail
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