Guy de Maupassant Quotes

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

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

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

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

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

Men fear most what they cannot see.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

We fear that which we cannot see.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge