#unknow

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. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big #cleaned #distractions #dramas #fixed

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#brothers #cannot #coming #community #feed

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#eyes #forces #forms #give #her

All nature is but art unknown to thee. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#nature #thee #unknown

The Fed chairmanship is not the kind of job where you want to surprise everyone with your choice of a total unknown. You don't want to surprise Wall Street. ↗

— David Jones

#everyone #fed #job #kind #our choice

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

#among #becomes #between #dialogue #each

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#afraid #company #feared #getting #girl

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#feeling #investigating #knowing #maybe #not knowing

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #fragment #human #human existence #literary