Unknown Quotes
1920 quotes by 1232 authors
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Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all…
— Alfred de Musset
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…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
— Margaret Atwood
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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open…
— Cornelia Funke
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It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned…
— Michael Chabon
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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
— Brian Greene
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The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The…
— Brennan Manning
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the…
— Nikolai Gogol
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I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom…
— Pablo Neruda
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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
— Amy Tan
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Well, usually when a person shakes their head,†said McGonagall coldly, “they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then…
— Alan Paton
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History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
— Taylor Swift
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal…
— Alexander Pope
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My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.
— William Shakespeare
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I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
— Aldous Huxley
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
— Bram Stoker
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The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of…
— Christopher Morley
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