Fear Quote by René Depestre

“Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.”

— Angela Carter

“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a…

— Amor Towles

“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.”

— C.Wright Mills

“I have changed refuge so often, in the course of my rout, that now I can't tell between dens and ruins. But there was…

— Samuel Beckett

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

— Voltaire

“He had that certain confidence in his bearing, that democratic interest in his surroundings, and that understated presumption of friendliness that are only found…

— Amor Towles

“As a newcomer I felt that this was indeed a blessed place, capable of unabashedly advertising its flaws, fearing no ridicule and no criticism.…

— Andrei Codrescu

“And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom to direct their impotent rage.”

— Patrick Süskind

“The arrogance of wealth and the dejection of wretchedness, capital cities of unwonted extent, a lax morality, a vulgar egotism, and a great confusion…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

“In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those…

— Kate Milford