Quotes About Unknown

The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

if you would progress a long way on this road and ascend to the Mansions of your desire, the important thing is not to think much, but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love. Perhaps we do not know what love

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Be excited and encouraged. Don't let the unknown become a source of fear.

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness

Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.

Honestly, who knows 100 per cent what they will do next year?

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.