Unseen Quotes

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. (John Dryden)
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. View quote
Frances Wright
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
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. View quote
Helen Keller
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them. View quote
Peter Senge
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. View quote
Dorothea Brande
By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. View quote
William Collins
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ. (Kenneth Scott Latourette)
The street's alive as secret debts are paid. Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. View quote
Norman Cousins
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands. View quote
Constantin Brâncuși
I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit. View quote
John of the Cross
The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance - crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais'd in Ocean's pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing. View quote
Erasmus Darwin
But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. (Ralph Ellison)
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. View quote
Thomas Gray
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment. View quote
Dōgen
Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher – a nothing. View quote
Laura Riding