John Darnielle Quotes

The unknown is very scary.

The unknown is always scary.

I don't know what frightens me more

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

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.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

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.

The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

The unknown is always frightening.

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?

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

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 think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

My only fear is the unknown.

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