Anticipation Quote by Friedrich Schiller

False fancy brings real misery.

— Friedrich Schiller

“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do…

— David Foster Wallace

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

— Friedrich Engels

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the…

— Robertson Davies

We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure,…

— Ronald Steel

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

— Stephen King

“Comfortable misery is still misery – our happiness is determined not by our comfort level, but by our consciousness level”

— Chaitanya Charan Das

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have…

— Blaise Pascal

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

— Luc de Clapiers

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

— Joseph Joubert

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil…

— Phineas Quimby