Quotes About Unknown

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

Es difícil no simpatizar con Michaux: más vale ser desconocido que mal conocido. La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver. (Prólogo de «Las enseñanzas de don Juan»)

don't you have this sense sometimes that our life is essentially just the tip of the iceberg, and if you stop clinging to your puny bit of ice in fear or out of habit and just dive into the water, you will discover this luminous mass going down, deep down, and meet creatures you can't even imagine, and have thoughts and feelings no one has ever had before . . .

Galip, bir keresinde, Rüyâ'ya yazar?n da katilin kim olduÄŸunu bilmediÄŸi bir polisiye roman yaz?l?rsa okuyaca??n? söylemiÅŸti.

I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part still unknown.

it made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before

In the dark, where do shadows go?

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the last pagan on earth, singing softly upon his pallet in an unknown tongue.

In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They dont know how bad what might get. I'll see you.

We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be.

I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell.

Nadie sabe para quien trabaja.

In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They dont know how bad what might get.

Where the bodies are buried in the desert is a certain world, Counselor. Where they are simply left in the street is another. That is a country heretofore unknown to me. But it must have always been there, must it not?

But have you not met people in your dreams you never saw before? In dreams or out? Sure. And who were they? I dont know. Dream people.

he knew he feared the world to come for in it were already written certainties no man would wish for.

What are you going to do? I dont know. Wait. For what? I dont know. When will you know? When it gets here.

Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name?