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Quotes About Unknown

What Proust is describing is an act of self-discovery on the part of his reader. Immersing herself in Proust, the reader may encounter aspects of herself that, while they have perhaps been in existence for a long time, have remained unnamed, undescribed, and therefore in a certain sense unknown. One might say that the reader learns the language of herself
~ Unknown
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.
~ Mark Epstein
But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?
~ Mark Frost
It's amazing that this is all happening to Lost in Space.
~ Mark Goddard
But what happens if we look back for support and don't get it? We become less confident about stepping into the unknown. We succeed less and fail more. We move two steps forward and three steps back.
~ Mark Goulston
And because there is something they can't see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can't see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they're scared.
~ Mark Haddon
The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice.
~ Mark Horton
Python's super is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you're going to get!
~ Unknown
The writing life: frustration, fear, independence, exhilaration, worry, adventure, a sense of the unknown.
~ Mark Rubinstein
And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?
~ Mark Strand
I know not what tomorrow will bring.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.
~ Eugene Ormandy
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
~ George Carlin
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
~ John Wyndham
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.
~ Kenny Rogers
I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.
~ Robbie Coltraine
We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.
~ Charlie Munger
James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.
~ Unknown
The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it.
~ Suresh Raina
The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.
~ Rodman Philbrick
Impossible to see, the future is.
~ Frank Oz
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.
~ Steven Erikson