Innermost Fears Quotes

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.