Etgar Keret Quotes

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

There's nothing special about your fear.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.

Anger is fear in disguise.

In the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth... After all, thoughts and emotions have evolutionary value.

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.