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Quotes About Unknown

I do not fear invisible worlds.
~ Ivo Andric
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.
~ J.M. Coetzee
the future was unknown and unknowable. So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.
~ J.R. Ward
Humans require two things to properly bond: scarcity and the unknown. If loved ones were around forever, you'd take them for granted, and if you knew for sure that you'd be reunited, you'd never miss them. It's all part of the divine plan.
~ J.R. Ward
Glancing over his shoulder, he was prepared for he knew not what. But something was in the room with him…and it was not of this world.
~ J.R. Ward
Shit, you never knew what was in someone's closet, did you.
~ J.R. Ward
When do we ever know what we're walking into," he said in a low voice. "Destiny is not a straightaway. It's cluttered with corners and all of them are dark. We make the turns we do . . . and find ourselves where we are.
~ J.R. Ward
and nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
~ Jack Kerouac
Dobbiamo andare e non fermarci finché non siamo arrivati. - Dove andiamo? - Non lo so, ma dobbiamo andare.
~ Jack Kerouac
We gotta go and never stop till we get there. Where we going, man? I don't know but we gotta go.
~ Jack Kerouac
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.
~ Jack London
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
~ Jack London
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
Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild.
~ Jack London
Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.
~ Katrina Kaif
For sure, life takes many twists and turns, and one never knows what the future might hold.
~ Angel Di Maria
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.
~ Rich Eisen
Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.
~ Alan Guth
Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
~ Abraham Lincoln
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again
~ Jack Parsons
You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
~ Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Moon
Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
~ Akiane Kramarik