If anything happens in the daytime, we ask what it is and are not so frightened; but if there is a noise at night, terror seizes on all our senses.
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There is no terror equal that of the ignorant in a strange place.
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
Terror is not fun. It is pain. But when you push through it, you’re in a new world. A world you never explored before. It’s a mystery, a maze, a game, a play.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
Lenin had been a risk-taker. Trotsky had been one, too, until Stalin had made him the Bill Gates of the Soviet Union, the excoriated crypto-reactionary. But Stalin himself hadn’t needed to take so many risks, because terror worked better. Although, to a man, the new revolutionaries all claimed to wo…
It is impossible to capture the tremor of terror. Everything is insignificant — here, at the pinnacle of history self-exposed by its violence, everything is eerily quiet like an abandoned November field.
You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your…