Unknown Quotes

“The more we try to concretize what can be known,
the less we are open to discover
what is not yet known,
not yet seen,
not yet recognized.”
― Shellen Lubin

“That’s probably not enough for you, is it? You want Meaning with a capital M. A message written by God in the stars, telling you the way you should go.’ Tears spring to his eyes. He can’t look at her. ‘You don’t believe that exists.’ He doesn’t know how many thoughts she lets pass unspoken. ‘I don’t know,’ she finally answers. ‘But if it does exist, I’m okay with not knowing what it says.’ She looks at him seriously. ‘Maybe that’s the only way to survive this. To be okay with not knowing.’ She stands, patting her pocket for the keys.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“You never know what can break you. What you can fix, what you can stand up to. You never know what time will do, what will defeat or surprise you. You never know.”
― Ethan Joella, A Little Hope

“A million words can be written by me to describe you. Still you touch me in unknown ways.”
― Avijeet Das

“It took me a long while to realize it but being unseen didn’t mean I didn’t matter. It didn’t mean that I wasn’t chosen. When you think about it, it all comes down to who’s looking. You don’t need every eye on you. Just the right one.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.”
― Thomas Bernhard

“Nothing makes a writer write more, than being unread.”
― Jack Freestone

“Humans love to find patterns and to make sense of what we see. When you can’t find those patterns, it’s unsettling. The CDC tells us that we have to social distance, and then the president is on TV without a mask, shaking people’s hands. Doctors say if you feel sick you should get a test, but the tests are nowhere to be found. Your kids can’t go into a classroom, even though it’s the middle of the school year. You can’t find flour on the grocery shelves. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, or six months from now. We don’t know how many people will die before this is over. The future is completely up in the air.”
― Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here

“Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“Your roots are spread deep into the unknown. Fearing the unknown means fearing your own roots.”
― Shunya

“Cinematographer.” Such an ornate term, yet still so vague. I often wonder if that’s to blame for how overlooked we are as a profession. Or even worse, that dry title, “Director of Photography.” But we are the true artists. A director may quite literally call the shots, but it is the cinematographer that makes them. We choose the angles, the lighting, pretty much everything that you see on the screen. The camera is a brush, and we are the hand, the arm, the eye. The director’s basically just the mouth, making pointless noise while the hand does the actual work. Almost every famous director that you know who has a distinctive visual style has simply managed to lock down a talented DoP.”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 3

“No sé tu nombre, sólo sé la mirada con que me lo dices.”
― Mario Benedetti

“She followed him across the desolate, unfurnished room to the very edge of everything it someday promised to become, then went feet forward onto the extended sky...”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“It wasn’t until I actually made the decision to let go of the plane and started falling away that I realized there was no turning back. At that instant, the fear was gone, vanished, defeated by pure excitement and exhilaration. I was stepping into the unknown. I had never felt as wonderful and alive as I did at that moment.”
― Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, Above All Else

“How often does the fear of the answer kill the curiosity that drives the question?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The end of the road
is the beginning
of the wild unknown.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“Hold my hand, live my adventure and let's escape to wonderful places.”
― Juan Manuel Rivera Carassa

“We will ask ourselves: Do I matter? And that question will turn our insides out and press heavy on our hearts hoping that the answer is the biggest yes. That we do matter. Small as we are. Unseen and unknown as we are. That we matter. And knowing that should make all the difference in our lives.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“In a sea of a thousand faces God’s eyes are always locked on us (like the slow-motion scenes of eyes locking in a crowd in the movie The Passion of the Christ). We all tie for first place in His heart and His gaze is firmly set on each of us. Not to put us down when we’re wrong or off, but because He’s enamoured by us. There’s no kinder heart, no kinder eyes and no kinder love than that of God. His words of affirmation over me have always filled my hunger.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“উড়ে চলি, মেলে দুটি ডানা
সেথায় যেতে নেই কোন মানা
শেকল ভেঙে আয় তুইও
সেথা উড়ে চলি যাহা অজানা”
― Sudipto Halder

“Ένα σώμα γυμνό είναι η μοναδική προέκταση της νοητής γραμμής που μας ενώνει με το μυστήριο.

(A naked body is the only extension of the imaginary line that unites us with the unknown.)”
― Odysseus Elytis

“Imagine a village which is surrounded by infinite dark space. There is just dark unknown space as far as one can go. Do you think villagers will sit and ponder about what lies beyond? No. They will create circus within the village to forget about the unknown. That's what humanity has done.”
― Shunya

“You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.”
― Pete Maravich

“After all, it was like that for all living things—they could never know everything they wished to know. That would never change.”
― Terry Brooks, The Measure of the Magic

“Bina had dressed her in a dove-colored gown, the red embroidery on its sleeves and hem the only decoration that separated it from a mourning dress. Usually she avoided such a bright color, even in ornamentation and especially when she might cross paths with Lisenn. The gray of the dress itself could cause no complaint, but that red might earn her a few bruises. Or another attempt on her life. She didn’t know anymore.”
― Kate Stradling, The Heir and the Spare

“Safe is always slower—whether it has to do with money, relationships or plain old life.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Whatever lay on the other side was unknown but staying in the same place would get her nowhere”
― S.E. Palmer, Drifting in a Dream

“Unless you consider the best-case scenario along with the worst, your brain will steer you toward the seemingly safest path—inaction. But as a Chinese proverb goes, many a false step was made by standing still. You’re more likely to take that first step into the unknown when there’s the proverbial pot of gold awaiting at the end.”
― Ozan Varol, Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

“Our job as practitioners of the Witchcraft is to venture beyond the firelight of normal human perception and into the Outer Darkness of the unknown. While a few
may legitimately make such a venture, even fewer will return unscathed.”
― Storm Faerywolf, Betwixt & Between: Exploring the Faery Tradition of Witchcraft

“Walking didn’t solve the problem, but it gave me a way to keep moving. Walking didn’t bring me to a destination, yet it gave me a way to negotiate the unknown. By holding space for my doubts, walking rescued me.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery