Fear of the Unexpected Quotes

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Fear is where the information is.

And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

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

It is what we fear that happens to us.

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.

I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.