Fear Of The Unknown Quotes

“I overcame my fear of loneliness when you showed me how lonely I can be when you’re around.”
― Khadidja Megaache, Lurking Shadow

“The first step is the hardest in every
journey of dreams. There is nothing
else to fear unto whosoever has shown
the tenacity to begin; because, once
having started, the hardest part of the
mission is the one lying behind.”
― Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules

“Staring into his eyes on a sunny day,
It's like swimming in pools of dark honey.
And I can't help but think,
It's so incredibly easy to love him,
I could drown if I'm not careful.”
― Charity Whan, In Search of The Music Man

“The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them arrested and kept distances apart and you and your accomplishments are secured.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A heartbeat later a single pair of orange eyes rose from the darkened depths. Dim at first, then in full brightness of attention they moved up from the floor then glided toward here, drawing closer and closer. She staggered back in horror as they moved nearer still, staring into hers, piercing her soul.”
― Marcha A. Fox, Beyond the Hidden Sky

“Many people fear the unknown. They busy themselves at motorway speed so to excuse their lack of understanding of the world around them.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.”
― Debasish Mridha

“It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that really break her heart. He's said that he loves her, after all, but that obviously isn't true. He cannot love an orogene, and that is what she is. He cannot be an orogene's father, and that is why he constantly demands she be something other than what she is.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.”
― Bruce D. Perry, Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

“Sometimes we find we love things we never thought we wanted. And then we regret that we never wanted them at all. It's the fear of change, I think, and dread of the unknown.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Spellkeeper

“And if, indeed, there is nothing beyond the corner? Who can affirm if beyond so-called ‘reality’ anything exists at all? Beyond a reality that I have probably created? As long as I’m steeped in this reality up to my neck, as long as it is sufficient for me—everything is tolerable. But what would happen if I wanted one day to lean out of my safe environment and glance beyond its borders?”
― Stefan Grabiński, The Dark Domain

“The ship and all in it are imbued with the spirit of Eld. The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; and when their fingers fall athwart my path in the wild glare of the battle-lanterns, I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ms. Found in a Bottle - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

“Uncontrolled irrational fear of the unknown is a cyclone of the mind and can create a panic attack. Meditation can calm the ocean and bring tranquility and peace.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Fear is a bastard. Fear is an attention whore. I want to ask fear if it has mommy issues, because that’s the only reason I can think why it needs attention so bad. I want fear to get Parkinson’s. Then maybe fear will know how it feels to be on the run from something it doesn’t understand.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

“One senses that it is a region of cosmic antiquity, and that man is no more significant here than any other of the insects that crawl in the dust.”
― Mark Samuels, The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales

“I wasn’t scared of the dark, I was scared of what could be hiding in it.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

“Unanswered questions are the source of true evolution, pushing mankind and its imagination onward past the brink of the unknown, in to realms never thought possible. Scenarios never thought conceivable. Created of pure fiction but ensconced within realistic possibilities where the impossible soon becomes the inevitable.”
― Frankie Nicholas Batuch

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve woken up in a cold sweat thinking I’m being chased by a grunting, disfigured man wielding a hatchet. Usually we're at an abandoned campground, which leads me to believe this is a subconscious mashup of Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He never catches me. The only thing that ever happens is I'm running and he's chasing. It's pretty horrible. I know it’s not real, but it feels real, and you know how feelings are. They make everything real.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

“With the tower, we knew none of these things. We could not intuit its full outline. We had no sense of its purpose. And now that we had begun to descend into it, the tower still failed to reveal any hint of these things. The psychologist might recite the measurements of the "top" of the tower, but those numbers meant nothing, had no wider context. Without context, clinging to those numbers was a form of madness.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Fear of the unknown will always be overpowered by human desire toward exploration. Curiosity is the risk, whose gifts often pays off.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

“Well, not everyone believes these things exist. The things we see are not common; they should not be common knowledge. It is like the story of Santa Claus. You and I know he does not exist -- that he is a metaphor. You know this because you are a special child; you sought to discover the truth yourself. But all of the other children do not know that yet. And we've discussed that you should not tell them the truth because it is not their time to hear it. It would make them very sad without good reason. Just so, it is better for us that we do not tell people about these extra things we see."

"When will they figure it out? When can I talk about it?"

"Some of them will never know." Pappou paused. "They must never know. Because they will think we are different, and people sometimes do bad things to people whom they consider to be different."

Lexi's legs stopped swinging. "Why?"

"Why, indeed." The old man sat for a moment, his elbows propped on his knees and his chin resting on his fist. "Perhaps to make us appreciate the nicer people all the more.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“The greatest fear, is the fear of the unknown.”
― Matt Fox, The Hitchhiker Man

“Faith can be as terrifying as it is reassuring.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Fear can rob us of our common sense and make us blindly follow our leaders, trusting that they have our best intentions at heart.”
― Starr Z. Davies, Unique

“Great speakers you wish to be like, were products of mistakes. Mistakes shaped their speaking skills. If you're afraid of making mistakes, you will remain there for so long!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We have been programmed to fear what we don’t understand, and we don’t understand the truth of ourselves.”
― Lorraine Nilon, Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness : Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth

“The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting there is what has scared me the most.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human