Quotes About Unknown

There is no fear worse than a new fear;

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His destiny was entering upon the unknown.

El futuro tiene muchos nombres. Para los débiles es lo inalcanzable. Para los temerosos, lo desconocido. Para los valientes es la oportunidad

No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.

There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Rapée to the knacker of Montfaucon. Fex urbis, exclaims Cicero; mob, adds Burke, indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do go barefoot!

I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown.

The Unknown sometimes holds surprises for the spirit of man. A sudden rent in the veil of darkness will momentarily reveal the invisible and then close up again. Such visions sometimes have a transfiguring effect, turning a camel driver into a Mohammed, a goat girl into a Joan of Arc. Solitude brings out a certain amount of sublime exaltation.

It's a dangerous business … going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." —J. R. R. Tolkien

If I'm finally taking a trip into the unknown; there ought to be photographs to document this momentous event.

Sheltered spots tend to increase your fear, the fear of the unknown perils of outside, a fear that simply regenerates and reinforces itself until it becomes overwhelming, making you incapable of drawing conclusions about what's really taking place outside.

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist's imagination

for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures. I