Quotes About Unknown

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.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

Quand vas-tu enfin cesser de me causer des peurs pareilles ? Avant de te connaître, j'ignorais jusqu'au simple sens de ce mot.

You never know, just by looking, what a person is hiding.

The idea made me shiver, rather; for it was queer to think of being loved, not just for my own sake, but for someone's I never knew...

Along with taxes and death, the only certainty in life is that we just don't know. So we might as well join this inevitability.

Maybe you'll be pleased, or relieved, or — how dreadful that I don't know what you'll be. That's the problem, right there in a nutshell.

It was another of those big life-changing moments when you didn´t know what the next ten seconds would bring but you knew that nothing would ever be the same after.

Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the unknown.

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. It seeps through cracks, ripples the grass, explores the unknown. My love is my soul's imagination.

The parts of my new job that filled me with abject and irrational fear, that twisted me into all kinds of knots, were the raw emotions of those left alive. It was the living who were the great unknown.

she dreams dreams wrapped in unknown skins. sweat scented covers are tossed aside in her urgency. she dreams recklessly of reckless abandonment in a dark, dank world.

Beats thinking about whatever's waiting in Stonewall.

From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.

You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

recogniz[ing] the dangerous influence the unknown naturally has on everyone. P.60

No doubt speculation will continue for a long time over what force alters and orders the dimensions of that place.

In fact all I had to hold onto at that moment . . . was her face, that wry smile, Natasha's, seen but unknown, found in a restaurant, lost on a street corner . . .

Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.