Jim Bishop Quotes

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

My only fear is the unknown.

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

The unknown is always scary.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

The unknown is very scary.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

No one likes uncertainty.

I don't know what the future will bring.

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about.

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

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

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

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.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.