Disease Quote by Randolph M. Nesse

“I’ve gotten used to hoping for so little that I seem to have lost any natural immunity to the emotion’s infection.”

— Barry Eisler

“So long as what is foreign does not attract unwelcome attention, immune defenses ignore it. It follows that the biological immune system is more…

— Byung-Chul Han

“Consequently, immune systems at this level can be defined a priori as embodied expectations of injury and the corresponding programmes of protection and repair.”

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people — but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.”

— Bryant McGill

“Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for…

— Honoré de Balzac

“Fear is the mother of all emotion. Before love, hate, spite, grief, rage, and all the rest, there was fear, and fear gave birth…

— Ben Fountain

“Emotional fear is a hindrance without purpose. Instinctual fear breeds caution and knowledge of one’s surroundings. One would be at a disadvantage without it.”

— Kel Kade

“The ones ( life-form) to fear the most stay still, unnoticed, their defenses undetected until you trigger them by accident. They make no distinction.…

— M.L. Stedman

“...human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.”

— Richie Norton

“The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it doesn't belong…

— Mladen Đorđević

“Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to…

— Helen Dunmore