#unknow

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#darkness #enter #form #funeral #like

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#economy #enthusiasm #entire #five #great

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#big #chief #destination #difference #early

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#terrible #unknown

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#ancient rome #attendant #back #beings #believe

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#any #anyone #cannot #coming #coming home

There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman. ↗

— Josephine K. Henry

#electricity #forces #great #men #much

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. ↗

— O. Henry

#aimless #fate #forth #goes #greet