Top 100 Quotes About The Unknown Fear
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth
Madeleine L'Engle
#4. Anxiety is the fear of the unknown, fear of the uncontrollable.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Fear swept in to fill the silence. Fear of disappearing, of the dark, of the unknown. Fear or being somewhere without this love to define him. 'Don't stop talking,' he tried to say.
Tommy Wallach
#6. 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
#7. Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#8. 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
#9. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.
Susane Colasanti
#10. 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
#11. I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.
Richard Bach
#12. 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
#13. The only thing that stops you from from success is fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#14. Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.
Peace Pilgrim
#15. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
Will Durant
#16. 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
#17. There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.
Storm Constantine
#18. The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina)
Rodolfo Rios Medina
#19. 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
#20. My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both.
Dean Koontz
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Alex: "You asked earlier why us humans fear death. I suppose it is the unknown - not knowing what awaits on the other side. But now I know, and I still fear it."
The Darkness: "?"
Alex: "But now I fear the living - in fact, I now fear life more than death!
Scott Beadle
#24. 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
#25. Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#26. 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
#27. If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.
Steve Rizzo
#29. Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
Henry Ward Beecher
#33. It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.
Richard Matheson
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Death's power lies in fear, which flourishes in the imagination and the unknown.
Wade Davis
#38. 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
#39. We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
Anthony De Mello
#40. 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
#41. But there is no need to know danger in order to fear it: indeed, it may be observed, that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror.
Alexandre Dumas
#42. Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.
Justin Halpern
#43. 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
#44. EMBARKING on the spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With wholehearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear.
Pema Chodron
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...
Luis Marques
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.
Tom Althouse
#51. However, letting yourself be driven by fear, denying the realities around you, or trying to control the unknown only undermines your confidence.
Bob Rosen
#52. There is nothing we fear so much as the unknown, and the Surgeon was not going to enlighten her.
Joseph Finder
#53. 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
#54. Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
Neal Shusterman
#59. 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
#60. Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
Anthony De Mello
#62. 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." Eight
Alice Steinbach
#63. Holden had once dated a Buddhist who said that death was merely a different state of being, and people only feared the unknown that lay behind that transition. Death without warning was preferable, as it removed all fear.
He felt he now had the counterargument.
James S.A. Corey
#64. Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.
Tinnekke Bebout
#66. The power of faith is the fear of the unknown. The power of love is the fear of dying alone. - EXCERPT FROM "THE POWER OF FEAR" BY HALBER TOD
Michael R. Fletcher
#67. The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!
The Undertaker
#68. I thought that day was the end of my life. It was the end of the world as I knew and understood it. I was taking another step into the unknown, again, onto a path unknown, grappled with fear and anxiety.
Sharon E. Rainey
#69. Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.
Georgette Mosbacher
#70. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.
Nick Vujicic
#71. Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination.
Lisa Anderson
#72. I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.
Rick Chiantaretto
#73. So you could value your own life," replied the Titan. "Before that you were under the gods' thumbs, doing their bidding without caring if you lived or died. When you could see that life was worth living by your fear of the unknown that was death, then you could really make things happen.
Jasper Fforde
#74. I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.
Saina Nehwal
#75. Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of the unknown.
Cora Carmack
#78. The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. Fear not the unknown. For it is a sea of possibilities.
Tom Althouse
#80. Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
Nick Nolte
#81. Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose.
Abhijit Naskar
#82. Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.
Jack London
#84. You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power.
Stephen King
#85. I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.
Dallin H. Oaks
#86. The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
Mandy Moore
#87. Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.
Deepak Chopra
#88. Life ... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other ... The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#89. It doesn't take guts to run away. It takes fear, a lot of fear."
His eyes widen, "Fear?"
"It's time to run when the fear of the unknown is safer than what you do know," I say.
Juanita Ray
#90. Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.
Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990
Zeena Schreck
#93. Make uncertainty your ally, not your enemy. All leaps forward depend on reaching into the unknown. Once you see the unknown as the source of creativity, you no longer fear it. Instead, you welcome the fact that life renews itself in unexpected ways.
Deepak Chopra
#94. Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road ... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
Henry Van Dyke
#95. The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.
Michael Jackson
#96. Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying.
Keep trying until you succeed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#97. The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people's fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#98. Fear of the unknown is a horror writer's best friend!
G.A. Minton
#99. Your dreams and goals are bigger than small minded people or the fears that they harbor. Don't let their ocean of fear trap you in the undertow.
Jaha Knight
#100. And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."
Minnie Louise Haskins
