Unknown Quotes

“In the end, I'm not interested in that which I fully understand. The words I have written over the years are just a veneer. There are truths that lie beneath the surface of the words... truths that rise up without warning, like the humps of a sea monster and then disappear. What performance and song is to me is finding a way to tempt the monster to the surface, to create a space, where the creature can break through what is real and what is known to us. This shimmering space, where imagination and reality intersect... this is where all love and tears and joy exist. This is the place. This is where we live.”
― Nick Cave

“People are not who or where we think they are. And there is someone who watches from an unknown location”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

“The Father made men curious, some say to test our faith. It is my own abiding sin that whenever I come upon a door I must needs see what lies upon the farther side, but certain doors are best left unopened.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“[He] was anxious about something, but he knew: he was worried because to be alive was to worry. Life was scary; it was unknowable.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“If. If. If this all happened! I, F, - he had to hang on to those two little letters, just one tiny two letter word. If. So much hope and dread hung in the balance on those two little blips in the alphabet! A chasm in fact!”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.”
― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Aunt Grace had once told me that we can romanticize the unknown far too easily. It is much harder but more satisfying to assign wonder to what we were familiar with.”
― M.J. Rose, Tiffany Blues

“Stars swelled to dawns, and dawns burst into fountains of gold, carmine, and purple, and still the dreamer fell. Cries rent the aether as ribbons of light beat back the fiends from outside.”
― The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

“Research is turning the unknown into reality.”
― Steven Magee

“O que mais tememos não é o conhecido. O conhecido, por mais horrível ou prejudicial à existência, é algo que podemos compreender. Sempre podemos reagir ao conhecido. Podemos traçar planos contra ele. Podemos aprender as suas fraquezas e derrotá-lo. Podemos nos recuperar de seus ataques. Uma coisa tão simples quanto uma bala poderia ser suficiente. Mas o desconhecido desliza através de nossos dedos, tão insubstancial quanto o nevoeiro.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“Like much else nowadays I leave it feeling stupid, like a man who lost his way long ago but presses on along a road that may lead nowhere.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

“The future is frightening, I know. The choice is the hardest of all.”
― Kara Barbieri, White Stag

“And back up they would go, not knowing where or when they would be able to land again.”
― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World

“Known is boring; unknown is tempting!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The stars, the moon, the Heavens align.
The sea will churn and the sky will burn.
When darkness falls in this place unheard.
The gates will open and hidden within.
There, Then! Will a man descend!”
― Jessica L Seay

“A person must shrug off lies, embrace the unknown and unknowable, and control personal terror in order to do to discover the right path for leading a worthy life. Dare to be an original. Make your life a vivid example for other people how to live splendidly.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“What is known and what is unknown is always relative because what is unexpected depends entirely upon what we expect (desire)-- on what we had previously planned and presumed. The unexpected constantly occurs because it is impossible, in the absence of omniscience, to formulate an entirely accurate model of what actually is happening or of what should happen.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“Of what value after all is a power which one could never use, or at any rate did not know how to use?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Mindset is knowing that time will eventually reveal what is making you sick.”
― Steven Magee

“The thing I like about scientific discovery is that you can truly change the world by uncovering the unknown.”
― Steven Magee

“Fear of the unknown will always be overpowered by human desire toward exploration. Curiosity is the risk, whose gifts often pays off.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

“Perhaps, I am an unknown subject for you because of only you do not know me.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Always approach what is known like it is unknown to learn more than you ever knew before.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“In my mind, the only way to prepare for the unknown was through an internal, spiritual journey of discovery, not by calculating litres and kilometres... how can humans plan or even make reasonable assertions about the enormous possibilities life presents us?”
― Jan Golembiewski, Magic

“You have to be willing to wander into the dark to find a distant light.”
― Carmine Savastano

“You have to be willing to wander in the dark to find a distant light.”
― Carmine Savastano

“I felt it then - the power of what we were doing, the significance of the ritual - as we stood there with our future still unwritten, with every unknown still utterly unknown, just gripping each other's hands as we said our vows.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Here are few words to the unknown person who hurted me in a way nobody else did.
This has been very impacting, the words still bang my head like marijuana. Even though I didn't knew much about you, I had no idea of the vulgarity of your mind which was so flithy for me but beautifuly coated with saccharine tales and rains with utmost fake sympathy. I sigh almost in tears for the words I never ever imagined to hear from anybody, but you broke that thought away henceforth believing that Satan did existed in the harmony of Angels. We could have been such good friends talking secretly about you to my besty that 'Maris is so warmest being'. You didn't had any idea how much I respected you and your struggles. I wonder how could you do this to a stranger like me who had been happily good to your gestures ever since I Mailed you. That mail just said to take care of my favourite thing and you took a revenge of my kindness. I sigh my pity on you that I cared for you beyond I thought I would do.
But my dear, I still have care for you and never wish to accept your apology because you were in anger and wrath does Mahabharata.
I just want to tell you that everything you did,hurted me and the challenges are really unbearable, the consequence is worst, you making me alone in such darkness that I wish to sleep in weepy rain and wake up in never.”
― Randhir Kaur, Bonmot Yarns: Dark secrets

“We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal.

Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left.”
― Franco Santoro

“The dawn of death is unknown.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita