Quotes About Unknown

He felt the loss of something irreplacable, as if a thief had come out of the night, velvet-gloved and softly shod, and taken whatever it was away without Jury's ever having known, and slipped through the square

when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life

Omne ignotum pro magnifico17

But is it coincidence? Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little?

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

I don't know what the future is. I don't know-what I'm supposed to want.

What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

If you want to earn the gratitude of your own age you must keep in step with it. But if you do that you will produce nothing great. If you have something great in view you must address yourself to posterity: only then, to be sure, you will probably remain unknown to your contemporaries; you will be like a man compelled to spend his life on a desert island and there toiling to erect a memorial so that future seafarers shall know he once existed.

for what is not seen is as good as what does not exist.

Who was he mourning? She didn't know. A whole generation maybe.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us?

In the face of the unknown—the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay—

Adam had smiled at him and Max had smiled back. And then they both just stood there in that awkward silence that happens when two people are attracted to each other but don't know what to do about it because they are strangers.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

some time until they finally went into an area of the Maze where they had never been before: Cheese Station

It was to be in essence crueler than revenge: it would have meant the destruction of that which we cannot comprehend.

One has only to look through the history of science to reach the most probable conclusion: that the shape of things to come is determined by things we do not know today, and by what is unforeseeable.

Because there may be thoughts, intentions and cruel hopes in my mind of which I know nothing, because I am a murderer unawares.

if something is so far beyond your imagination, it's hard even to fear it.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

Whatever he had learned of himself was of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.

the future is unknown and open, so it might well have the curvature required. This would mean that any time travel would be confined to the future. There would be no chance of Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise turning up at the present time.