Tacitus Quotes

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

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

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I love the mystery behind things.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

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

People are afraid of what they don't know.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

The less we know the more we suspect

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!