Compassion for the Frightened

 Stephen King

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm* because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

And frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can’t help it. It’s the way they’re built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.

Revival

* The hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.