Sara Paxton Quotes

I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.

I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do.

Men fear most what they cannot see.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don't understand.

I'm scared of things that I can't see that can hurt me, you know.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

People tend to be scared of what they can't see.

Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

I don't know what frightens me more

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.

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

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

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.