Elias Canetti Quotes

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The unknown is always frightening.

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

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

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

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

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.

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

People are scared of the unknown.

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

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

The unknown is always scary.

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

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

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.

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.