#unknown

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. ↗

— Kate Smith

#dying #i #last #many #myself

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#ardor #boredom #excites #known #scholars

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#hamlet #i #introduce #juliet #just

If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers. ↗

— John Britton

#after #associate #became #birth #early

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems. ↗

— Francis Brett Young

#mystery #unknown #life

It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake. ↗

— Anne Rice

#unknown #science

It’s the unknown that draws people. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#adventures #attraction #discovery #fascination #love-of-the-unknown

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #love #lovers #naming

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss. ↗

— Chris Jirika

#feelings-of-weakness #motivational-inspirational #inspirational