Unnoticed Quotes
174 Unnoticed quotes by 158 unique authors
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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
— Leo Tolstoy
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We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,…
— Boris Pasternak
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She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.
— Jedediah Berry
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The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich
— Leo Tolstoy
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I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching…
— Richard Brautigan
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours,…
— Lord Byron
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Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the…
— Mary Balogh
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Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
— Philip Yancey
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After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come.…
— Juliet Marillier
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I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood…
— Nicole Krauss
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Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised,…
— Lew Wallace
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I want you to have this.” He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots on the wings…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet…
— John Lennon
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Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for…
— Doris Lessing
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Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting…
— Joss Whedon
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Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.
— Shannon Hale
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Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance…
— Philip Larkin
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...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would…
— Rachel Joyce
Who Wrote These Unnoticed Quotes
158 authors contributed a total of 174 Unnoticed Quotes, led by these top contributors: