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“Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.”

— Barbara Samuel

“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”

— Sarah Waters

“I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the…

— L. Frank Baum

“I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled…

— Graham Greene

“While most people had rational fears, I was stuck with an irrational fear of self. Nothing in this life scared me more than my…

— Ali Blythe

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

— George Eliot

“Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.”

— Eoin Colfer

“So do not fritter away your days. Sooner than you fear, you will stand before a mirror in a care home, look at your…

— David Mitchell

“The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.”

— The Vampire Diaries

“And it seems to me that everyone is like me—they're all afraid of the slightest movement . . . Everyone's sitting all closed up…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“That was the night I learned that the things we don't ask about - ignore, walk by - those can be the most deadly…

— Rebecca Serle

“Those who demand that you conform the most to how they live are the ones who are the most scared and intimidated by life.…

— Grace Jones