And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions.

It’s not the thing itself we fear, it’s our reaction to it.

What does their hate matter to us? ... Oderint dum metuant! Let them hate us, but let them fear us!

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

The fear of ill exceeds the evil we fear,
For so our present harms still most annoy us.

Normal fear is healthy. It paves the way for one’s progress. It preserves life. A Headmaster is afraid of the Inspector of Schools. He takes a very keen interest in training the boys. All the boys get success in the examination. An engine-driver of the Railways is afraid of his superior officer. He is very careful in the discharge of his duties. No collision occurs. A physician is afraid of getting a bad reputation. He takes great care of his patient. He makes researches. He saves many lives. He becomes a famous physician also.

We are what we fear in others

to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Our own vitality as well as that of others frightens us, if it still manages to surface, we respond with rage and turn against our own freedom. It is vitality itself that we are opposing.

I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.