We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.
Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.
It is nearly always invisible dangers that are the most terrifying.
There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.
I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.
