John Steinbeck Quotes

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

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

Men fear most what they cannot see.

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

The unknown is always frightening.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

I'm scared of things that I can't see that can hurt me, you know.

People are scared of the unknown.

I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do.

Growing up, I was afraid of the dark.

Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.