Top 100 Quotes About Unknown Fear: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Unknown Fear

#1. We make trifles of terrors,
Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

William Shakespeare

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Stress comes from unknown fear. To reduce stress, love what you do and be who you are.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Dreaming big is very easy, but the anticipation one feels when the dream is almost fulfilled, is unsettling. It is like starving for the cake which you can see on the table, but an unknown fear makes you feel sick and prevents you from taking it

Anamika Mishra

#6. 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

#7. Anxiety is the fear of the unknown, fear of the uncontrollable.

Debasish Mridha

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown.

H.P. Lovecraft

#18. 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

#19. Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

George Cooke

#20. 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

#21. A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Julien Green

#22. People hate what they know and fear what they don't.

Min Kim

#23. It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel. It's paying homage, very much, to that.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#24. I used to fear depression. Now I look into the mirror and want to smash it to pieces. I put on fake smiles, I have no confidence, no one likes me, and I hate this place. Now I know why I feared it.

Unknown

#25. 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

#26. You're evil. It's your worst fear. And it's true.

Unknown

#27. 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

#28. The only thing that stops you from from success is fear of the unknown

Thabiso Monkoe

#29. Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.

Peace Pilgrim

#30. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Will Durant

#31. 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

#32. There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

Storm Constantine

#33. 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

#34. The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina)

Rodolfo Rios Medina

#35. 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

#36. Life is a walk through the forest. Don't fear the trees, fear what lurks behind them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Plato

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both.

Dean Koontz

#41. She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.

Stephen King

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. [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

#45. 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

#46. Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.

Guillermo Del Toro

#47. There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection

Thomas Ligotti

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J.K. Rowling

#52. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword...He cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.

Unknown

#53. Awaken yourself by stopping your preoccupation with what you think you know, and instead rest comfortably in the not knowing. Embrace possibility and potential. Do not fear the unknown or that which you cannot control.

Alfred James

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

W. Brett Wilson

#60. Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#61. To live for your dreams, you have to be fearless in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

Juliette Binoche

#63. Life is a journey toward the unknown future. Life is always a daring, great adventure. So go along with life, with courage, but without fear.

Debasish Mridha

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

Steve Rizzo

#67. 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

#68. Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

Erin O'Connor

#69. 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

#70. Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

David Lynch

#75. 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

#76. We fear which we cannot see

Tite Kubo

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#83. The only thing that holds back from your success is fear of the unknown

Thabiso Monkoe

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.

Frederick Lenz

#89. 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

#90. Death's power lies in fear, which flourishes in the imagination and the unknown.

Wade Davis

#91. You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.

Joe Vitale

#92. Stress comes from fear of the unknown, so have faith and fear will disappear and stress will melt away.

Debasish Mridha

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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