John Dryden Quotes

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Fear is the highest fence.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

While there's life, there's fear.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

I know the signs of scaredness.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.