R. L. Stine Quotes

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.