Neil Gaiman Quotes

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

We fear that which we cannot see.

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

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.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

I'm terrified of the ocean. I think it's beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it - I think that's a metaphor for a lot of things.

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

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

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.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

The unknown is always frightening.

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

The unknown is very scary.

The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

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

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.