#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

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#grieves #joys #parents #secret #their

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#believe #condition #course #darkness #deal

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fear #glorious #gloriously #had #inspirational

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 would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#again #boring #conforming #ever #everything