Unknown Quotes
1920 quotes by 1232 authors
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Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art…
— Marcel Proust
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What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From…
— Marcel Proust
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More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
— Edward Gorey
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When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of…
— Alice Sebold
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I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’…
— John Irving
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It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all…
— Lisi Harrison
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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an…
— Thomas Hardy
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs…
— Victor Hugo
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Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
— Peter S. Beagle
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When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because…
— Jodi Picoult
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They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come…
— James Frey
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Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
— Neal Shusterman
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Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to…
— Mark Epstein
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This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are…
— Winston Churchill
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Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.
— Yasmine Galenorn
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I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened…
— Jonathan Tropper
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It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
— Mary E. Pearson
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