„Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine’s ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.””What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inqired Jessamine.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.“
— C.G. Jung
„The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.“
— Patricia Briggs
„Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.“
— William Faulkner
„Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.“
— Jim Butcher
„without any doubt he waswhatever(first and last) most people fear most:a mystery for which iv'eno word except alive“
— E.E. Cummings