Fear of the Unknown Quotes

Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Don't worry about things that haven't happened yet.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

I don't like to play live. And if I don't like to do it, why should I?

Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.