“Like a child, I fear the darkness”
“You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared. ”
“I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.”
“My fears?”“Yes.”“I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’spause. “I fear it like the proverbialblind man who’s afraid of the dark.”
“Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like stars - always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight.”
“To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.”