Uncanny Quotes

• At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Power
  • Food

• Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.

  

  William Barrett
  • Feelings
  • Afraid
  • Objects

• People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • People
  • Week
  • Uncanny