Edna O'Brien Quotes

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

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

But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

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.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

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.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

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

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?

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.

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

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

The unknown is very scary.

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.

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

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

The unknown is always scary.

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

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

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

People tend to be scared of what they can't see.