„I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.“

— Margaret Fuller

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„I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.“
— Sylvia Plath
„. I have done well to come here [to the hospital of Saint-Remy, ] first of all that by seeing the actual truth about the life of the various madmen and lunatics in this menagerie I am losing the vague dread, the fear of the thing.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„And as to being in a fright,Allow me to remarkThat Ghosts have just as good a rightIn every way, to fear the light,As Men to fear the dark.“
— Lewis Carroll
„I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst—for me, at least—is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.“
— Stephen King