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Quotes About Unknown

Si descubría nuevos mundos, poco importaba que fuese por error.
~ Jack Williamson
unaware of the fate around the corner.
~ Jackie French
Real philosophy is dense, impenetrable, so esoteric as to be unknown and so obscure as to be irrelevant... Maybe what I do is trivial, the philosophical equivalent of a Big Mac and fries
~ Unknown
One after the other, they were buried under that sky and neither they nor I knew if it was the one under which we'd been born.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
I don't disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch," and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. "I don't even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don't know. It
~ Unknown
Nothing that was said in here would decide MacGregor's fate. That decision was being made elsewhere. This was not the highest Court in the land. The highest Court in the land was somewhere else in some unknown building; in a room with locked doors, a room which MacGregor would never enter and never see. This was a great camouflage for the authority that stemmed from another unknown source.
~ Unknown
It can be scary facing the unknown.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.
~ Unknown
Light at the end of the tunnel We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
And worst of all, I did not feel held safe. Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe. So they look at gaps of the unknown and hesitate at best. Run away at worst. They crave for life to make sense. They cringe when it doesn't. It
~ Lysa TerKeurst
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don't know. Likewise, I don't know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I'm reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.
~ M. John Harrison
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.
~ M. John Harrison
Everyone loves a mysterious country.
~ M. John Harrison
When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
Every story begins with a tremble of anticipation. At the start we may have an idea of our point of arrival, but what lies before us and makes us shudder is the journey, for that is all discovery.
~ M.J. Rose
Tener fe es estar abierto a las posibilidades. Significa que estamos dispuestos a dejar que la vida nos sorprenda, que nos atrevemos a entrar en lo desconocido y a dejar de tenerle miedo a lo que nos parece incierto. Quien tiene fe tiene el corazón siempre abierto.
~ Unknown
Our infatuation with the unknown is systematically provoked and dismantled by a memetic campaign that's never less than astute in its grasp of human belief.
~ Unknown
The world was made of mysteries, and I was only another riddle among the millions.
~ Madeline Miller
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear. To be we know not what, we know not where.
~ John Dryden
Every man is a mystery to himself. And then we die, unsolved.
~ Unknown
My only happiness is when I sleep. When I wake, the nightmare begins. I feel cast on a desert island, imprisoned, condemned, and I know not what crime it is for.
~ John Fowles
Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.
~ John Gierach
Street life was a struggle to survive today, with no time to reminisce and nothing in the past to get nostalgic over. There was no future so that point of reference was likewise unknown.
~ John Grisham
He had not recognized me, and thought I was some master he did not know.
~ John Gunther