“Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.”
Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 30
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
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Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
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Variant: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
Joseph Goldstein (1944) American vipassana teacher
Wisdom and Compassion