Quotes About Unknown

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

Unamuno says: "The prehistoric is unconsciousness; it is the void." (This of course is literature, but it sounds convincing.) Nobody knows anything about the prehistoric!

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore

Forse, pinsò Montalbano, abbisognava fari un gran monumento, come il Vittoriano a Roma dedicato al Milite Ignoto, in memoria dei lavoratori clandestini ignoti morti sul lavoro per un tozzo di pane.

Sei come una strada buia e fredda che conduce in un luogo sconosciuto e… e io sono spaventata ma nonostante ciò, per qualche strana ragione, continuo a percorrerla. Percorrila un'ultima volta e ti accorgerai che quella strada non fa più paura.

Years away at sea, husbands coming back — if they came back — having seen things you cannot imagine, having wrestled with the unknown and, somehow, won? All this with barely enough money made to cover the debt accrued? I imagine it was like being married to a novelist.

We will go. Nowhere we know. We don't have to talk at all.

Pop once said it's a good thing we don't know what's around the corner. I didn't understand what he meant then, but I do now. It's better to wish than to know.

You are exaggerating, Sunny. You don't know a thing about him. He is still a stranger. You may never see him again. Get over it.

Here is the beginning of the path. As yet, I do not know where it will lead, but I ask you to trust me and to trust in the future.

I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

There is always the rest of the story, right? Even if you don't know right now what it is.

I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, he said. We're all just out here hoping for the best.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

estaba empezando a darme cuenta de que lo desconocido no es siempre lo más temible. La gente que mejor te conoce puede suponer un peligro mayor, porque las palabras que dicen y las cosas que piensan tienen el riesgo no solo de dar miedo, sino también de ser verdad.

You never know what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.

Without Christ, the world was a joyless place and any place where he remains unknown and unaccepted is a joyless place. Everything has changed since Christ's birth yet everything remains to be changed as people come to receive the child in faith.

once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.