"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

Fear, Darkness, Opposition, Sleep

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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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."

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Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"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

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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

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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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"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."

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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

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