Stephen King Quotes

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.

I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.

When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

I was rather nervous when I was 10 years old.

Kids have got such active imaginations and they're scared of so many different things.

Growing up, I was afraid of the dark.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

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

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

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

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.