Lewis Thomas Quotes

The future is the worst thing about the present.

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

You can be barefoot and have worries.

While there's life, there's fear.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

The unknown is always frightening.

To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.

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

When desire dies, fear is born.

Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on human experience.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

The unknown is very scary.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

I am definitely a worrier.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

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

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

The unknown is always scary.