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Quotes About Unknown

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone's desire.
~ Richard Powers, Orfeo
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
~ Richard Hovey
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
~ Charles Lamb
No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
~ Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.
~ Luis Gonzalez
Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is...A story of our fate!
~ Somya Kedia
I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
~ Amanda Lindhout
Nobody can know what their legacy is going to be, you know?
~ Rhiannon Giddens
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
~ Michael Stipe
As far as whether there is life there on Mars or whether there was actually ever life there, I don't know. It would be great to find out, though.
~ Scott Kelly
Nobody knows who hasn't been there." To war.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person ? some stranger ? had gone to the trouble of marking my name on this envelope.
~ Diane Setterfield
No one knows the day or the hour.
~ Don DeLillo
I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known
~ Don George
It is not so much the things we know that terrify us as it is the things we do not know, the things that break all known laws and rules, the things that come upon us unaware and shatter the pleasant dream of our little world.
~ Unknown
And so here she was, working with a friend she could never see, trying to rescue someone she'd never met from an enemy that a few days ago she would not believed had existed.
~ Donna Andrews
Things will come to you and you're not going to know exactly how they fit in. You have to trust in the way they all fit together, that your subconscious knows what you're doing.
~ Donna Tartt
it wasn't that the future...seemed bad or frightening so much as incomprehensible, a blot of black ink on the horizon.
~ Donna Tartt
His pleasures and wishes must not determine his direction. He doesn't know yet what is good for his mind and soul, any more than what is good for his body.
~ J.C. Ryle
She supposed it felt like freedom, if freedom was a fall into the unknown.
~ Unknown
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.
~ Jack Vance