Horrified Quotes

To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that.

I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.

What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend.