Judy Blume Quotes

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

I'm afraid of animals.

I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big problems. I'll spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm being terrorised by this missing spider.

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

The eye is easily frightened.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.

Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

That which one fears becomes one's master.

Fear is the fatal killer of desire.