Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.
I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.
