There was this superstitious fear on the part of the…

“He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.”

— César Aira

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

— Seamus Heaney

If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by…

— Thomas Hobbes

“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and…

— George Orwell

“A sudden, superstitious fear chilled her skin. She was too happy. Happiness this intense couldn’t last. Something was bound to happen.”

— Thea Harrison

By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually…

— Max Barry

I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of…

— Betye Saar

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and…

— Aldo Leopold

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of…

— Jean Plaidy

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or…

— Patrice Pavis

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution…

— Adrienne Rich

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely…

— Alexey Leonov

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron