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Quotes About Nameless

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.
~ Auliq Ice
De qué tenéis miedo?– pero ellas no contestaron y se limitaron a mirarla furtivamente, y Aspasia comprendió que temían darle un nombre a su terror, no fuera a acudir como ante una llamada.
~ Taylor Caldwell
For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.
~ Diana Gabaldon
To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate?
~ Thomas Browne
He. Nobody spoke his name. Vidal. It sounded like a stone thrown through a window
~ Guillermo del Toro
the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing is more frightening then a fear you cannot name.
~ Cornelia Funke
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Tao is both named and nameless. As nameless it is the origin of all things; as named it is the Mother of 10,000 things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery; ever desiring, one sees only the manifestations. And the mystery itself is the doorway to all understanding.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
He was a man of such modesty that he never mentioned his own name even when recording the stirring events in which he played so prominent a part.
~ Charles R. Erdman
At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.
~ Susan Dey
Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.
~ Pablo Neruda
I have had three different forms as teachers: the grays, the kobolds and now these nameless unknowns
~ Whitley Strieber
That I was poor and without means seemed to me the most bearable part of it, but it was harder that I was numbered among the nameless, that I was one of the millions whom chance permits to live or summons out of existence without even their closest neighbors condescending to take any notice of it. In addition, there was the difficulty which inevitably arose from my lack of schooling.
~ William L. Shirer
A nameless girl in freshest summer greens, A saint, an angel;
~ Christina Rossetti
In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
~ Leonard Cohen
You'll pass or my name's not Jennifer Strange." "Your name's not Jennifer Strange." "What?" "You're a foundling. You don't know what your name is.
~ Jasper Fforde
And what they found was something no one had ever seen before." "What's that?" "Well, no one had ever seen it, so it didn't have a name.
~ Unknown
The Crone tires quickly and reaches out for the velvet draperies, sits on the divan, breathing heavily. She's too ancient to have a name any longer. When she coughs you can hear the ages rattling inside her shrunken frame. No human names can cling to her any more- they slip from her dusty shriveled flesh like a young girl's whimsies.
~ Unknown
The nameless anxiety of the dream is indescribably horrid - the wide, Jeni, feels she simply must (wiper) must (wiper) must catch the husband's car in order to avert some kind of crisis so horrible it has no name.
~ David Foster Wallace
Liberdade é pouco. O que eu desejo ainda não tem nome.
~ Clarice Lispector
La vida en mí no tiene mi nombre.
~ Clarice Lispector
I have no name for what circles so perfectly
~ Coleman Barks
My name is Nobody.
~ Homer
It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize in every imaginable social arrangement...We have names to label each as self, and we believe without reservation that this system of taxonomy will guarantee the entity, the absolute separateness in each of us, but the mechanism has no discernible function in the center of a crowded city; we are essentially nameless, most of our time.
~ Lewis Thomas