„I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.“

— James Joyce

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„I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.“
— Dr. Seuss
„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
„Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.“
— Patricia Briggs
„I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation.“
— Stanley Kubrick
„Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.“
— Osamu Dazai
„Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.“
— H.P. Lovecraft