Nicole Krauss Quotes

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Kids will often see something different and feel insecure about it because they don't understand it.

My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.

TV has been so far outside my comfort zone.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.