Quotes with terrors

  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Arbuthnot Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
    John Arbuthnot
    Scottish physician, satirist and polymath (1667 - 1735)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Tacitus Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Aldous Huxley Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • George Orwell Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brendan Francis The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Stendhal True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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