Hallie Ephron Quotes

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

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

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

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

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

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.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.