The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.Douglas Coupland
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.Douglas Coupland
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.Albert Camus
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.Napoleon Bonaparte
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.Albert Einstein
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.Emily Dickinson
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.Francois de La Rochefoucauld