Unknown Quotes
1920 Unknown quotes by 1232 unique authors
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Happiness is a choice.
— Melissa Marr
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There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a…
— Arthur Machen
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… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake…
— Vera Nazarian
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Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Not all who wander are lost
— Ann Brashares
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an…
— M. John Harrison
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in…
— Richard Wright
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Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your…
— Maya Angelou
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Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this…
— Robert Bloch
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I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.
— Eminem
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He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as…
— Jack London
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A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is…
— Clive Barker
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Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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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