Top 100 Fear Of Unknown Quotes
#1. I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#2. Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying.
Keep trying until you succeed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you from achieving your maximum potential.
Jaycee DeLorenzo
#4. Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.
Scott Jurek
#6. Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.
J.M. Robertson
#7. People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#8. Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II
#9. The parts of my new job that filled me with abject and irrational fear, that twisted me into all kinds of knots, were the raw emotions of those left alive. It was the living who were the great unknown.
Scot Gardner
#10. In the beginning of a movie, they don't tell you what's going to happen. You just have to wait and go on the adventure with them
Katie Douglas
#11. Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again.
Teri Terry
#12. We make trifles of terrors,
Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
William Shakespeare
#13. Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying.
Lauren Oliver
#14. Fear is an enemy to fight and defeat and not an enemy to fear. Fear of falling, fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of trying new ideas, fear of failure or fear of those already there."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph
Ikechukwu Joseph
#15. The only thing that stops you from from success is fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#16. Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.
Peace Pilgrim
#17. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
Will Durant
#18. We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.
Philip K. Jason
#19. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
Marquis De Sade
#20. Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.
Daria Werbowy
#21. The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
Plato
#22. The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.
Caroline Kettlewell
#23. The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U.
Nigel Lawson
#24. Doing absolutely nothing has its own inertia, making it tougher to walk out that door, and once outside, the fear of my computer kept me from wanting to come back.
Fred Venturini
#25. Where something even deeper than the marrow knows that the cost of avoiding what one fears is even greater than the actual object of that fear and so the fear itself is even more corrosive even more destructive than all the frightening potential of the thing that arouses it.
Joe Henry
#26. [T]he unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers.
Neil Shubin
#27. It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
Pema Chodron
#28. Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.
Guillermo Del Toro
#29. There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection
Thomas Ligotti
#30. Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life - seize your divine moment. A
Erwin Raphael McManus
#31. 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
#32. The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
Michael E. DeBakey
#33. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword...He cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
Unknown
#34. I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#35. When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
T.D. Jakes
#36. The unknown is not what to be afraid of, it's only when the unknown becomes known that one can decide whether to be afraid or not.
Markus Peterson
#37. 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
#38. Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
W. Brett Wilson
#40. Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.
David DuChemin
#41. Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.
Charles F. Glassman
#42. When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
#43. If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.
Steve Rizzo
#44. There are limits to the dimension of fear. Until one meets the unknown. Then terror has no boundaries, no walls to keep it contained.
Carol Hedges
#45. Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.
Erin O'Connor
#46. His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
Jack London
#48. The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
Pema Chodron
#49. Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.
Brennan Manning
#50. There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery
David Lynch
#51. The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#52. A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.
Kenneth Tynan
#53. When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because ... because of what they believe.
Gordon Dahlquist
#54. It never ceases to amaze me when God wants to take someone to the next level in their life and they let fear of the unknown rob them of tremendous blessings. I think there are two common problems with Christians- They are scared to death of being truly free and of God's overwhelming love.
R. Alan Woods
#56. The only thing that holds back from your success is fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#57. When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.
Michele Cassou
#58. The practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.
Brian Cox
#59. We can choose to shape our life not out of fear of the unknown, but from the certainty of knowing that we are strong enough to face whatever comes our way.
Julie Gohman
#60. It is the unknown that terrifies us in life, the unfamiliar and the unpredictable. People fear what they're not sure of. What they cannot control. It's The Old Dark House again. If we don't know what's in the dark and quiet place, we fill it with bogeymen and demons.
Dennis O'Donnell
#61. There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#62. Stress comes from fear of the unknown, so have faith and fear will disappear and stress will melt away.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
Brad Pitt
#64. She untied her ropes, her frazzled oily grimy ropes that held her down into the littered marshlands of a life too long lived in fear and dread of the unknown, and took a big step out of bounds.
Ella M. Kaye
#65. For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness....We do not need to keep every little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves only by allowing some falling apart to happen.
Maureen Brady
#66. We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
Anthony De Mello
#67. Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
#68. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
H.P. Lovecraft
#69. One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#70. Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one's imagination.
("Sir Edmund Orme")
Henry James
#71. He doesn't mind if he dies ... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
William Golding
#72. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H.L. Mencken
#73. A fear of the unknown: what was that called?
Worse yet: a fear of the known.
Joyce Carol Oates
#74. Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail.
Leigh A. Bortins
#75. Oh, you know ... staring down fear, laughing in the face of death, taking a ride in Hell, and in general, testing the waters of the unknown.
Jenn Cooksey
#76. Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...
Luis Marques
#77. She could hardly believe what she was hearing. How could the man who had taken her from her home - the person she had trusted with her safety, her life, her whole future - suddenly abandon her, and expect her to fend for herself in a foreign kingdom?
A. Grace Martin
#78. For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.
Chris Jirika
#79. As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.
John Bingham
#80. Fear and confession for the fear of
unknown,business mind to fulfill greeds and unsatisfaction, limited
knowledge makes the religion
Er.teji
#81. Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.
Tom Althouse
#82. Horror is about fear, about rising dread and unknown terrors, and in the face of such nightmares, the acts of good people can seem insignificant.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#83. Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of "leap and the net will appear." Faith is your best buddy when you're scared shitless.
Jen Sincero
#84. She had thought that she was protecting herself, but now she saw that resistance for what it was. It was only childish fright, a fear of the unknown. She knew that she would have to overcome that fear. When
Sophia Lynn
#85. In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#86. Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Isabel Allende
#87. The only thing that stops you from success is fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#88. I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.
Kathryn Budig
#89. There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will."
"It sounds hideously barbaric"
"Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown.
Jasper Fforde
#90. The uncertainty, the fear of the unknown was driving him, almost to the point of desperation. He felt as if he was going down a dark stairway, missing a step, hurtling into the unknown and having no idea where he would land.
Ken Puddicombe
#91. Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
#92. There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
Tahir Shah
#93. Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
H.P. Lovecraft
#94. We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
Peter Hoeg
#96. Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
Neal Shusterman
#97. Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.
Maureen Brady
#98. Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
Anthony De Mello
#99. However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good.
Nancy B. Brewer
#100. Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
Wendell Berry
