#fear

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. ↗

— Kate Morton

#inexplicable #personality #nature

I'm reading a book that actually scares me. It is not a form of fear that is embodied in some irrational phobia of a specific object, living being, or an event, but a fear of words, of actions of beings towards one another, how one word or command wrongly distributed can destroy someone or many people. How following blindly into the paths of something you truly believe is right without any rationale to back it up or the thought of the consequences it can cause may blindly lead others to their death. How in that moment, thinking you're doing it for the right reasons, you ignore all the laws of nature that tell you that human life is sacred and that no one man's ideals can ever compensate for its loss. To have the power to destroy and cause suffering without much care. This is a fear of what humanity is turning into, and such a future truly scares me. ↗

— Aliaa El-Nashar

#humanity #death

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#courage #fear #fears #fight #fight-your-fears

I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#creepy #fear #fearful #ghost #ghosts

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#fearless #love #near-death-experience #self-improvement #spiritual

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#religion #religion

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#helplessness #loss #religion #religion

فالخوف من الموت ، موتُ قدّ يمتد مدى الحياة ↗

— أحلام مستغانمي

#fear #life #death

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#depression #earth #escape #fear #horror

He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn’t want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand in his lap and he answered. ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#love #love-hurts #love