#fear

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#believe #boredom #even #even worse #fearing

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#fears #low #meanwhile #over #sank

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#fear #ignorance #neither #nor #where

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. ↗

— Richard Bach

#instead #know #listen #you

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#atomic #common #community #dark #darkens

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cannot #fear #know #live #masks

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#control #create #fear #i #i do

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#day #embodies #fear #knows #night

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#fear #pervasive #well

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#anticipations #cannot #day #day to day #each