Quotes About Unknown

Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures in whom has been implanted and to whom has been entrusted a world-consuming desire, and if misdirected, it will sooner or later lay waste the world.

The Unintended, Professor Estrella Espejo points out, pushes the envelope: within the spiral of war and loops of art is an unknown war wrapped in another, a ghost in its machine.

We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.

Le cadeva addosso una malinconia dolce come una carezza lieve, che le stringeva il cuore a volte, un desiderio vago di cose ignote.

rampole isn't here and nobody knows when she'll be back

In the middle of the night, with his father and brother asleep, and his mother having an adventure, he felt fits of longing for places he'd never been, places he couldn't describe, and he wondered if there were anyone else like him in the world, awake and catching glimpses of the unknown. He wondered if he were truly related to his family, or if instead he had dropped among them, a changeling.

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded.

Don't anthropomorphize computers — they hate it.

My dreams leap — dancers of the night, reaching heights unknown to the day.

The life of Marian Evans had much I never knew — a doom of fruit without the bloom, like the Negra fig...

POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

Bidarshik sempre viajou para lugares distantes - interrompeu Zilla em tom de orgulho. - Ser verdade - assentiu Ebbits gravemente. - E sempre regressou para se sentar ao lume e ansiar lugares distantes e desconhecidos.

The cub knew only that the sniff was strange, a something unclassified, therefore unknown and terrible – for the unknown was one of the chief elements that went into the making of fear.

To him it signified death. 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.

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.

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.

Who are our basic enemies? This is a secret, unknown even to these basic enemies." — Xaviar Skolcamp, Over-Centennial Fellow of the Institute, indulgently, in response to a journalist's too-searching question

It occurs to me that the man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with his personal volitions and attitudes. The religious man stating his case is in essence explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted he feels a threat to his own existence; he reacts violently.

He is searching for an answer for which no question exists.

I think they're even married now. Or dead. Who knows?