Nyctophobia Quotes

⁠“The night can be the scariest time of the day even if you don't have nyctophobia, though it was the quietest like the tideless sea. it's darkness feels like an empty space where perils can hide and you can't see

it’s the seers who need something, not the spectres.’ Alfonse drained his glass and set it down. ‘Such visitations are more about the living than the dead. You must ask yourself not what they did wrong, but what you have done.

Happiness lies in overcoming your problems, not pretending they don’t exist.

I am not scared of the dark! I simply have chronic intractable nyctophobia!

me with my panic attacks, hypochondria, insomnia, and nyctophobia, every year a new malady added to the list. Cooper, on the other hand, recoiled into himself. I was feeling too much, while he was feeling too little. His loud personality shrunk into a whisper; he practically disappeared. The two of us together were childhood trauma wrapped in a bow and placed delicately on the doorsteps of every doctor in Louisiana. Everybody knew who we were; everybody knew what was wrong with us.

insomnia, nyctophobia, hypochondria—they have one common trait, one significant quality that binds them all together, and that’s control. I fear all situations where I’m not in control. I imagine the things that can happen to me in my sleep, defenseless.