Boogeyman Quotes

• The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

  Sergio Aragones

  Behavior, Results, Conscience

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• The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

  John Carpenter

  Fear, Believe, Essence

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• We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Darkness, Shadow, Fascinated

  "Hopkins Defends Hannibal, Talks Prequel". abcnews.go.com. February 12, 2002.

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Struggle, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.143, Bantam

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• I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

  Alan Moore

  Kings, Sheep, Black

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• It's been quite a while since I was really afraid that there was a boogeyman in my closet, although I am still very careful to keep my feet under the covers when I go to sleep, because the covers are magic, and if your feet are covered, it's like boogeyman Kryptonite.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Kryptonite, Feet

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!

  Gayle Forman

  Dream, Regret, Sleep

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• Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Believe, Mean

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take my writing to a deeper level, I’ve found that a better practice is to simply write what frightens you, haunts you, even. I now keep a sign on the bulletin board in my office that reads: 'Write What Scares You.' I’ve learned that tapping into the hard stuff — whether it’s the fear of loss or a boogeyman lurking in childhood memories — is what ultimately gives a story the power to leap off the page and grab you by the collar.

  Sarah Jio

  Memories, Writing, Loss

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• We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Past, Electronics

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• Wellsie frowned. "I'd like you to stay away from him, okay? He's...not right in a lot of ways. Do you know what I mean?" Actually, John wasn't so sure about that. Yeah, the guy was enough to make you think fondly of the boogeyman sometimes, but clearly he wasn't all bad.

  J.R. Ward

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1696, Penguin

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