Unseen Quotes
420 Unseen quotes by 340 unique authors
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Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
— Amy Tan
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Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And…
— Thomas Gray
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She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another,…
— Amy Tan
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They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or…
— Elizabeth Strout
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I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply…
— William George Jordan
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I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store…
— Nicole Krauss
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The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her…
— Kim Harrison
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I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls…
— Ally Carter
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Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned…
— James Joyce
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I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love…
— Somaly Mam
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He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of…
— William Shakespeare
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The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk…
— H P Lovecraft
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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came…
— Andy Andrews
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The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!
— Edmond Rostand
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And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and…
— Tom Clancy
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists…
— Oscar Wilde
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This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of…
— Thomas Merton
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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
Who Wrote These Unseen Quotes
340 authors contributed a total of 420 Unseen Quotes, led by these top contributors: