Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

I can't predict the future.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Even just making albums - which was more within the structure that I've worked in for years - you have no idea how people will respond. You don't know if it'll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

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

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

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

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

A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

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

There's nothing as scary as the future.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.