#on fear

[thecosmoswhispers]

And I whisper to myself, I am safer alone.

Wasted, Marya Hornbacher / . / . / . / painting by Mladen Ilic / Paul Auster / Letters To Milena, Franz Kafka / Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys / The Departure Of The Train, Clarice Lispector / Beau Taplin

[metamorphesque]

The Children of Húrin, J.R.R. Tolkien

[ilusry]

THE FEAR OF ABANDONMENT: PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME.

letterbomb - green day // tissues - yungblud // thru line - june henry // euphoria (2019–) // i'm your man - mitski // unknown // unknown // clarice lispector, “the departure of the train” // personal journal (1.7.23) // cry me a river - justin timberlake

[terrorignitis]

The phobic has no other object than the abject. But that word, “fear” –a fluid haze an elusive clamminess– no sooner has it cropped up than it shades off like a mirage and permeates all words of the language with nonexistence, with a hallucinatory, ghostly glimmer. Thus, fear having been bracketed, discourse will seem tenable only if it ceaselessly confront that otherness, a burden both repellent and repelled, a deep well of memory that is unapproachable and intimate: the abject.

Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

[thequotablescollector]

“‘Fear,’ the doctor said, ‘is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.’” — Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

[heartify]

[ethelcainsfreezer]

where do i put it all down?