Quotes About Unknown

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

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.

Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible -- though I know not in what proportion -- still remains.

as Freud said; that the nostalgia for lost paradises, for the joys and sorrows of childhood, lays upon our lives a weight as heavy as it is unknown to us.

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.

No hay ninguna guía para la muerte. Nadie puede decirte qué hacer, qué es lo que te espera

What is called "orthodox" economics is in most countries barred from the universities and is virtually unknown to the leading statesmen, politicians, and writers. The

Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.

The same things that trip you up as a human will tie you in knots as a spirit, if you don't let go and let God. Speaking of God, He's real and He's there, too. And don't ask what He looks like because you wouldn't understand even if I told you. There's just some things none of us are supposed to know, until it's our time.

Progress always comes at a cost, but if we fear the unknown, we will never get anywhere. Nothing in life is risk-free.

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than new solutions, because the new represents the unknown.

This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party, even in stir—even franks and rice taste good when you're hungry, even an iron bar feels good to touch, it feels good to sleep. It's like a party even in maximum security and who wants to walk out of a party into something that nobody knows anything at all about?

I hope you enjoy what the Internet told me to plan for you this Valentine's Day.

You can never discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never try to go back and repair the past, that is impossible, but be prepared to construct the future which is predictable. . .

There are two reason why we don't trust people. First, we don't know them. Second, because we know them.

Can you blow all those candles out or should we call the fire department? Happy Birthday.

Take a day off to celebrate you birthday. Take a year off and tell people you are younger. Happy Birthday.