Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 42)
Source: The Temple of My Familiar
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 42)
“If Dahlmann was without hope, he was also without fear.”
Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones
"The South"
Ficciones (1944)
Context: If Dahlmann was without hope, he was also without fear. As he crossed the threshold, he felt that to die in a knife fight, under the open sky, and going forward to the attack, would have been a liberation, a joy, and a festive occasion, on the first night in the sanitarium, when they stuck him with the needle. He felt that if he had been able to choose, then, or to dream his death, this would have been the death he would have chosen or dreamt. Firmly clutching his knife, which he perhaps would not know how to wield, Dahlmann went out into the plain.
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
Stephen King book Different Seasons
Source: Different Seasons
“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
“What is stronger, fear or hope?”
Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Imaginary Countries (p. 204; first published in The Harvard Advocate (Winter 1973)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)