Quotes About Unknown

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.

Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!

But best of all, the fascination of the People I'd Like to Know. They pop up now and then in the shifting crowds, and are gone the next moment, leaving behind them a vague regret. Sometimes I call them the People I'd Like to Know and sometimes I call them the People I Know I'd Like, but it means much the same. Their faces flash by in the crowd, and are gone, but I recognize them instantly as belonging to my beloved circle of unknown friends.

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown.

There is no one who can return from there,To describe their nature, to describe their dissolution,That he may still our desires,Until we reach the place where they have gone.

No man knoweth of his [Moses'] sepulcher unto this day.

The potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern."

Mony a one for him maks mane,But nane sall ken where he is gane:O'er his white banes, when they are bare,The wind sall blaw for evermair.

I still find it strange, incomprehensible, unnatural, inhuman, to devote oneself to the happiness of people whom one does not do not know; and I declare that I do not have the honor of being known to the men who govern me.

The first reaction is one of fear. It's not that we fear the unknown. You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That's what you fear.

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language.

Toutes ces fenêtres dans le noir... C'est comme si la ville était devenue une bibliothèque de livres écrits dans une langue inconnue : et les maisons, des rayonnages de volumes devenus illisibles en l'absence de lumière. Mais il y a cette machine au grenier, qui fonctionne de nouveau. Une étincelle dans la nuit.

Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished.

Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.

To enter a world of shadows is to leave this world for another.

That's why life is so different to fiction. Every day is a single page and you have no chance to thumb forward and see what lies ahead.

He was an invisible man with no background and no foreground, and plans, strategies and conspiracies he would have taken with him to the grave.

Being in the studio for the first time was a daunting process. I didn't know what the engineers did. A mix? What's a mix? We didn't know what we were doing, but fortunately, we knew people who did.

When I start thinking about the future it freaks me out.