Edna O'Brien - Fear Quotes

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What makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Edna O'Brien

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

Edna O'Brien

Fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Edna O'Brien