“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”

“I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.”

Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905) American poet

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

“You know I believe we all begin equal parts light and dark. I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”

Pierce Brown book Dark Age

“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.”

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”
Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecis in tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemus interdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quam quae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura. hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest non radii solis neque lucida tela diei discutiant sed naturae species ratioque.

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“Calvin: I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist