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#1

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

tags: fear, horror, storytelling

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#2

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: fear, freedom, responsibility

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#3

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: cave, fear

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#4

“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

tags: fear, masks

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#5

“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, fear, levin, love

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#6

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
― Seneca, Natural Questions

tags: astronomy, diligence, discoveries, disinformation, knowledge, lies, memory, misinformation, propoganda, research, science, time, truth

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#7

“The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: bat, dark, fear, humor, light

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#8

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato

tags: courage, fear

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#9

“I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

tags: crying, fear, insanity, sanity, voices

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#10

“Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.”
― Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

tags: acronym, fear

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#11

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

tags: darkness, fear, heart

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#12

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
― Brom, The Child Thief

tags: demons, fear, see

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#13

“I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: assault, fear, memory, nightmare, pain, rape, sad

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#14

“Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

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#15

“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.”
― Stephen King

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#16

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

tags: change, fear, poetry

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#17

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
― Krishnamurti

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#18

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Blood, Sweat and Tears

tags: democracy, dictatorship, fear, freedom, government, independent-thought, liberty, oppression, power, thought

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#19

“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

tags: enemy, fear

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#20

“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: fear, women

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#21

“I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: fear, frustration, imagination

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#22

“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: death, fear, life

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#23

“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”
― Garth Nix , Lirael

tags: fantasy, fear, fortune, omen

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#24

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

tags: choices, fear

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#25

“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls

tags: fear, memory, psychology

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#26

“This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fear, fearlessness, joy, night

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#27

“Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions

tags: fear, ignorance, knowledge, life

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#28

“If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

tags: brave, fear, scared

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#29

“There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.”
― Conan O'Brien

tags: fear

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#30

“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

tags: china, concepts, daughters, family, fear, heritage, hope, ideas, immigration, joy, language, luck, mothers, perception, tradition, women

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