Nighttime Fears Quotes

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

As a kid, I was fearless during the day. But at nighttime, I needed to be home.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

I'm frightened of the dark.

It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed.

Growing up, I was afraid of the dark.

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself - and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them.

I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.