Unknown Quotes

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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
Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you. — Peter S. Beagle
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
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
Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear. — Neal Shusterman
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
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
Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out. — Yasmine Galenorn
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
It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections. — Mary E. Pearson
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo
I want to be famous but unknown! — Edgar Degas
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about… — Woody Allen
I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place… — Henry David Thoreau
A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet… — Hiromu Arakawa
Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown... — Henry Miller
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out… — Alice Hoffman
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now… — Daniel H. Wilson
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look… — Jeanette Winterson
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be… — Megan Whalen Turner
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,… — Virginia Woolf
Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with… — Steig Larsson
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater… — Tom Robbins

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