Bumps Quote by Mark Gatiss

Kids love to be scared - there's way to do it right, and ways to do it wrong.

— Henry Selick

What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone,…

— Tilda Swinton

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's…

— Sebastian Junger

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

— Anonymous

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen…

— Daniel Kahneman

“It’s interesting to observe the fascination children have with fear. Whether it’s movies, books, or Halloween, part of them wants to be scared at…

— Joe Kita

Kids love to be scared; we all do. But there's a difference between leaving them hanging out there, with their fears, and then bringing…

— Henry Selick

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

— Salman Rushdie

We just can't scare our kids by living in fear.

— John Ross Bowie

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

— Anonymous

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality…

— Suzanne Vega

. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday…

— Maurice Sendak