Quotes About Unseen

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

The fact that the technology of slaughter at vast distances has become extremely sophisticated does not culturally advance its highly trained operators over club-swinging primitives; it makes complete the blindness that was but rudimentary in the primitive. It is the supreme triumph of resentment over vision. We are the unseeing killing the unseen.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

There's something here that I simply will not let myself look at.

If they are cold, these English women, it is because they are frozen with neglect.

But listen," he shouted to the guard, "there's a whole world you don't know anything about … here, how about this?

A magician wandered along the beach, but no one needed him.

Surely the notion that great lumps of rock whirling in space knew something about your day that you didn't must take a bit of a knock from the fact that there was suddenly a new lump of rock out there that nobody had known about before.

Dietrologia is the idea that the obvious thing cannot be the truth. There is always something hidden behind, dietro.

But Jesus never defines what someone must have faith in; he doesn't say "your faith in me has healed you." Rather, it's faith itself, the trust in things unseen that heals.

When people barely notice you're alive, you're not likely to have any enemies.

Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to grasp the person we once were. It might even be possible to pull them up to join us. Now I wonder if our past is always nearby, and our future too, and if we look carefully we can see both. But who wants to look carefully?

If everyone is asleep in bed and it's dark and something happens, then that event is deemed to have taken place in The Middle Of The Night.

D-SAT, police lingo for those who didn't see a thing.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

Invisible factors in my life would inevitably lead to my downfall. I felt I had known this all along. There was no escape.

the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.

The cause of whose tears... could not be found in the traces on her cheeks. ...even as he knew the source of her tears was endless. bottomless and endless and not to be found in their traces. p.194

Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.

Other humans gaze at the sky, but I say unto you, the only way through the world is to pass through the underground.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.