Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races, and is crystallized in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.