Shirley Jackson Quotes

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

You're scared of what you can't control

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

A house is kind of scary.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

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

I don't like being in houses alone.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?