Childhood Fear Quotes

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and then they'd whack me on the side of the head or whatever. And "What's wrong with you?" And "I'm gonna lock you up," and "I'm gonna throw you out the window," and "I'm gonna kill you." You know, all these things that you say in the heat of a normal chaotic household.

From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

I spent a lot of my life afraid as a kid, even throughout high school.

For me, as a kid, I always felt like being gay was something that was going make people turn on me.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

Witches were really scary to me as a kid.

I couldn't really get a grasp on wrestling at a young age. I knew it was what my parents did, and they fought people. It scared the crap out of me, so I thought, 'No, I can't do that. I'll get beaten up!'

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.

Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.'