Quotes About Unknown

It is to the unknown one yields most impulsively; it is toward the unknown that one feels the most total, the most instinctive obligation.

An unknown individual accosts me outside a café: 'Surely you're not going to wait till you're dead to be loved? The implication of his remark: when are you going to do what you have to do to be loved? Implied beneath this: you are not loved. Hurry up and die: it's your last chance. But in another sense, the question suggests that I have to be love one way or another. And that is also a declaration of love.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined

My own heart, like this wild place, has never been visited, and I do not know whether it could sustain life.

Este favor del público, de ningún modo buscado, y para un autor desconocido, me inspiró la primera confianza verdadera en mi capacidad, de que había dudado hasta entonces, a pesar del sentimiento interno.

She heard a scrape, and then a rustling sound.

Then there might be dead people.

I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

There are so many secrets in our world.

You never know what kind of person you're going to be faced with, and you never know what kind of obstacles you're going to have to overcome.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

We are all Strangers . . . Some of us are just Stranger than others.

We are all strangers, some are just stranger than others.