The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
We live in a fearful age: Brexit, Covid, global warming, cancel culture, war in Ukraine. Add in pancreatic cancer and you find me in an advanced and complex state of anxiety.
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
Not waking up in the morning.
Being at peace with God.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
In Macon, Georgia, during my childhood. I knew everybody there—it was like the whole town was your family. I felt complete there.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
Paula Wilcox, Bruce Dickinson, Felicity Jones, Johnny Flynn, Chris Bryant, Tom Ford
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