Quotes About Unknown

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

Alles ist zu einem einzigen, riesigen Wettbewerb mutiert, der sich Leben nennt, bei dem niemand weiß, was der Preis ist, aber jeder weiß, dass er gewinnen will

Nevertheless, remembering how the curate described what existed before creation, Scully saw dark matter out there, thick, unknowable, aching to made into a world.

Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can't know in advance.

Poems build our capacity for imaginative thinking, create a tolerance for ambiguity, and foster an appreciation for the role of the unknown in human life.

Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven't they read Twilight?

The sentence, "She was hollow, as though something had chewed a hole in her body and the hole had grown infected," unless it's been used before by someone else in a story she cannot recall.

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

a place people are drawn to because they don't realize deep down they're actually afraid of what they want. It's new, and they're escaping their histories while at the same time moving headlong toward their own extinctions. Desire and death are all mixed up with the thrill and the risk of the unknown.

That's the problem with destiny: You know she'll get you there eventually, but how she does it is generally a big fat mystery.

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

That which is least known,is the most feared

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

Who knows from the outside where death grows?

There are limits to the dimension of fear. Until one meets the unknown. Then terror has no boundaries, no walls to keep it contained.

Do people with this mindset believe that anyone can be anything, that anyone with proper motivation or education can become Einstein or Beethoven? No, but they believe that a person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.

We all assume that we have our tomorrows to look forward to, but we never truly know what's waiting just around the corner.

The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.

Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?