The world is full of insightful sayings and profound quotes, both from historical figures and the brilliant minds of present-day people.
Some of the smartest people have said some of the most terrifying things about humanity. Things that really make you stop and think about your life, your family, your actions, and the future.
We went over to r/AskReddit and found some of the most frightening quotes that people shared in response to the question "what is the most terrifying quote you've heard?".
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The days are long but the years are short u/RedWarBlade
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“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” -Douglas Adams u/W0nk0_the_Sane00
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“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” -Otto von Bismarck u/ILikeTF2ALotItIsFun
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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” - Zora Neale Hurston u/CampusTour
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"Society is just 9 missed meals from collapsing." u/MarcusQuintus
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"Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story." - Richard Siken u/radXR650R
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“This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most.” — Thomas Olde Heuvelt u/dreadfulpenny81
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"A child who does not receive warmth from the village will burn it down to feel it" - African proverb u/Imposter_Syndr0me
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"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake." - Viktor Frankl u/joemo114
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"I don't know what weapons will be used to fight world war 3. But world war 4 will be fought with clubs and stones" -Albert Einstein u/ZeStriker310
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“When you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you." --Friedrich Nietzsche u/dorvann
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“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” Star Trek u/No-Reception-8671
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung u/WordGypsy
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut u/extremeindiscretion
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"When we're all gone at last there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to." - Cormac McCarthy, The Road u/LFC_sandiego
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How do we convince the upcoming generation that " Education is the key to success " When we are surrounded by poor graduates and rich criminals. - Robert Mugabe. u/InflationNo9264
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“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” - Carl Sagan u/buzzkill1138
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“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper” – T.S. Eliot u/CustoMIZEyourownpath
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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." -Arthur C. Clarke u/weirdfish_23
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” -H.P. Lovecraft u/eferver
