Quotes About Unknown

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.

Where what is known is so surprising and where what is unknown is so extensive, almost anything can be surmised

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

We sketch monsters on the map because we find their presence comforting. They guard the edges of the abyss, and force us to look away; so we can live comfortably in the Known World, at least for a little while.

We know not whom God loves nor whom He hates.

Johnson was unknown to the vast majority of the blues audience and ignored by all but a handful of his musical peers until the "blues revival" hit in the 1960s.

It was just a movie, but what you learned when you lived on an island was, you never knew.

There is nothing more mysterious, confounding, and unknowable, Eleanor thinks, than the desires of the human heart.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

I wasn't afraid of the dark. I was afraid of the light—the future.

Everyone around her was just between escaping something and not knowing what might come for them next. All they could do was find those people whose hands they would hold fast when they ran.

How did he know of this place? What is it, a shadow world, world of the half-told stories?

Fear was not a familiar sensation, and this fear-stranger-fear of the unknown-even less so. Among the legacies of atavism corrected by rightminding was the overactive fear response of the human amygdala to anything foreign or strange.

what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

this thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don't see land.

Judex (Matthäus Richter), like many others who wrote about printing, was puzzled why the invention was unknown for so long. He concluded that the art was only revealed to mankind at the very time that God had chosen for unmasking the anti-Christ.

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us.

And living with this pandemic was like that. You did not know.

I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned.

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.

I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.

I am unknown: so what? This verses believe; they love; they hope: that's enough.