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Quotes About Unknown

There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!
~ Gaston Leroux
Why do you condemn a man you've never seen, a man no one knows, a man you know nothing about?
~ Gaston Leroux
Persons who are visited by the Angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind. And they cannot touch an instrument or open their mouths to sing, without producing sounds that put all other human sounds to shame.
~ Gaston Leroux
The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was natural suicide. In
~ Gaston Leroux
Only the solitary may see the gods," the giant told me. "For the rest, every god is the Unknown God.
~ Gene Wolfe
A knife with a worn blade and a cracked wooden handle lay at his feet. Reflexively, he bent to pick it up, and recoiled from it as if from a coiled snake. Something screamed in the emptiness, something deeper than resentment and thoughts of water, food, and healing. He backed away from the knife and stumbled through the open door into the darkest night ever known.     We
~ Gene Wolfe
It's easy to want to change, but it's hard to actually change. Very, really hard. You have to be willing to be uncomfortable, enter the unknown, do things your ego doesn't want to do. You have to value being true to what you glimpse as possible—to the heart of your heart
~ Geneen Roth
His spirit changed house, and vanished there, Where I have not been, so cannot say where.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
His spirit chaunged house and wente ther, As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.
~ George Eliot
Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.
~ George Eliot
for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.
~ George Eliot
For a long while she lived in the hope that my evident wretchedness would drive me to the commission of suicide; but suicide was not in my nature. I was too completely swayed by the sense that I was in the grasp of unknown forces, to believe in my power of self-release.
~ George Eliot
Her simple view of life and its comforts, by which she had tried to cheer him, was only like a report of unknown objects, which his imagination could not fashion. The fountains of human love and of faith in a divine love had not yet been unlocked, and his soul was still the shrunken rivulet, with only this difference, that its little groove of sand was blocked up, and it wandered confusedly against dark obstruction.
~ George Eliot
I long for life, and there is no help. I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content. Agony of pain and suffocation — and all the while the earth
~ George Eliot
Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
~ Alan Alda
How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?
~ Mike Quade
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
~ Alan Rickman
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
~ Frederick William Robertson
In Vedic times, we had the great quest for the unknown. We did wonderful things; we celebrate our past vigyaan and our wonderful heritage of science and technology of the Vedic times.
~ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
~ Jim Morrison
I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.
~ Marc Forster
The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite extraordinary and by and large that overwhelms the feeling of personal terror.
~ Tony Robinson