Maurice Sendak Quotes

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

People motivated by fear do not act well.

Fear is sort of like jealousy. It's an unnecessary emotion.

Fear usually looks like anger.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

Fear is exciting for me.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

The unknown is always frightening.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier. Put them at a table together—what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

It's not like I particularly have an interest in creepiness for creepy's sake.