Andrew Pyper Quotes

Men fear most what they cannot see.

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.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

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

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

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

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.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens.

We fear that which we cannot see.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.