Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

I don't think nightmares are necessarily bad for you.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it.

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

I have a lot of nightmares.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

People can die of mere imagination.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.