Peter Temple Quotes

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

Growing up, I was afraid of the dark.

I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

I'm sick of running away from things.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

I worried too much when I was a kid.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

I think kids are amazing. You kind of just deal with stuff, don't you? It's only years later that you have to spend thousands in therapy.