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Quotes About Nameless

sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.
~ Ayn Rand
I heard death had a name, but I forgot what it was.
~ Anthony Liccione
We - that indefinite we - with no name, no party, no argument and no power
~ Sebastian Haffner
She nodded silently, unable to name as joy any part of the things she felt.
~ Ayn Rand
If not dissuaded, they will get to the innermost nucleus of the antarctic and melt and bore till they bring up that which may end the world we know. So I must break through all reticences at last - even about that ultimate nameless thing beyond the mountains of madness.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Then the germ of panic seemed to spread among the seekers. It was one thing to chase the nameless entity, but quite another to find it. Spells might be all right—but suppose they weren't?
~ H.P. Lovecraft
These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Him Who is not to be Named.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Suddenly there came another burst of that acute fear which had intermittently seized me ever since I first saw the terrible valley and the nameless city under a cold moon
~ H.P. Lovecraft
And always the shadow of nameless fear hung about the sealed trap-doors and the dark, windowless elder towers.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The anonymous puts the name in place, leaves it empty, as if the name were there only to let itself be passed through because the name does not name, but is the non-unity and non-presence of the nameless.
~ Maurice Blanchot
I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
~ Sai Baba
Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
~ Bob Marley
When you lose a parent, you're an orphan. When you lose a husband, you're a widow. But as Zig had learned fourteen years ago, when you lose a child, they don't have a name for that.
~ Brad Meltzer
He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
~ T.S. Eliot
For every one knows that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it;
~ Herman Melville
The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.
~ Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke
Who can free himself from achievement And from fame, descend and be lost Amid the masses of men? He will flow like Tao, unseen, He will go about like Life itself With no name and no home. Simple is he, without distinction. To all appearances he is a fool. His steps leave no trace. He has no power. He achieves nothing, has no reputation. Since he judges no one No one judges him. Such is the perfect man: His boat is empty.
~ Thomas Merton
A line from a book he'd read in highschool popped into his mind: The nameless are easier to bury.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name?
~ Toni Morrison
Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name? Although she has claim, she is not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupts in her separate parts, to make it easy for the chewing laughter to swallow her all away. It was not a story to pass on.
~ Toni Morrison
Even now, he did not know if he was doing the honorable thing. The southron had it easier. They had their septons to talk to, someone to tell them the gods will and help sort out right from wrong. But, the Starks worshiped the old gods, the nameless gods, the nameless gods, and if the heart trees heard, they did not speak.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror . . . and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.
~ Jack Kerouac
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.
~ Jack London