"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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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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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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"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

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"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."

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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Fear attracts attack."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

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

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."

"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"Fear attracts attack."

"The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake."

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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."