"When desire dies, fear is born."

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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fear attracts attack."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Fear, Belief, Night, Darkness, Superstition

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"We are too scared to be real!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win."

Stephen King, American Author

Fear, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom

"Fear is a society induced state of confusion."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Fear, Death, Risk, Justification

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"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."

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"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."

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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

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"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."

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"When desire dies, fear is born."

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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"Fear attracts attack."

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

"We are too scared to be real!"

"Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win."

"Fear is a society induced state of confusion."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

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"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."

"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."

"Evil report carries further than any applause."

"Begin with another's to end with your own."

"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."

"When desire dies, fear is born."