“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as Fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight is sublime too, whether this cause for terror be endued with greatness of dimension or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling or contemptible that may be dangerous.”

—	Edmund Burke 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful', 1757