John Irving Quotes

The unknown is very scary.

The unknown is always scary.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I'm scared of the unknown future.

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

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

I don't know what frightens me more

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.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

The unknown is always frightening.

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

I fear the future.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

My only fear is the unknown.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

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

People are scared of the unknown.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.