Stephen King Quotes

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

A house is kind of scary.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

We've always been told to pretend as if we're not afraid.

I was young and playing against big players and big clubs. In the beginning, I was thinking they were better than me, and maybe I was a bit scared, also.

Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.