Rick Yancey Quotes

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

I'm acutely aware of my anxiety.