St. Vincent Quotes

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.

And as I have always said, the only thing more scary than knowing we are not alone in the universe is knowing we are alone in the universe.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

It's a crazy world!

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

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

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

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.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

The word reality frightens me.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.