A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.
I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.
I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.
It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.
The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'
Are you afraid, Tessa?
There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.
I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve.
It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.
I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.
I have a crazy imagination, and it's a visual one that can be scary from time to time.
Fear is cruel and mean.
