Unknown Quotes

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. (H. P. Lovecraft)
There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors. View quote
Jim Morrison
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. View quote
Emil Cioran
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. View quote
Rene Magritte
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. View quote
Giambattista Vico
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. View quote
George S. Patton
Greater is our terror of the unknown. View quote
Livy
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. (Colette)
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. View quote
Nhat Hanh
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is good to love the unknown. View quote
Charles Lamb
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. View quote
Frances Wright
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. View quote
William Wordsworth
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. View quote
Milan Kundera
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. View quote
Milan Kundera
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Into a world unknown,the corner-stone of a nation. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces. View quote
Georg Büchner
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me dye; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lye. View quote
Alexander Pope
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. View quote
Wallace Stevens