#fear

He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark. ↗

— John Banville

#emptyness #fear #human #death

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear. ↗

— Lady Nancy Astor

#fear #death

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. ↗

— Eileen Wilks

#death-magic #eileen-wilks #fear #lupi #paranormal

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. ↗

— Rosie Thomas

#fear #death

love is fear but fear is death ↗

— kruz lex

#fear #love #poetry #death

Confront death! All of your piteous insecurities derive from this primal fear.. ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#fear #insecurity #death

There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#fear-of-death #death

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire. ↗

— Nancy Pearcey

#fear #selfishness #death

Midnight" The hours glide Like drops of water on a window pane Midnight silence Fear unrolls in the air And the wind hides at the bottom of the well OH It's a leaf We think the earth is going to end Time stirs in the shadow Everyone is asleep A SIGH Inside the house someone has just died ↗

— Vicente Huidobro

#death #fear #midnight #night #shadow

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions. ↗

— Idries Shah

#fear-of-death #death