We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us — listening. one of us
Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...
— Agatha Christie
Power Quotes
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
— Agatha Christie
Knowledge
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.
I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine.
He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence — they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all.
To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.