Unknown Fear Quotes

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

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.

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown.

Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

There seems to be a feeling we need Klaus to be in 'The Vampire Diaries,' surely and partially because of the Klaus and Caroline dynamic, but many people love the character. They want to see more of the character, but people really have a tendency to fear the unknown.

I'm scared of things that I can't see that can hurt me, you know.

No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.

To me, the most interesting approach to film noir is subjective. The genre is really all about not knowing what's going on around you, and that fear of the unknown. The only way to do that effectively is to really get into the maze, rather than look at the maze from above, so that's where I sort of come at it.

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.