Quotes About The Nameless

#1. the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines - arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.

Herman Wouk

#2. These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

Ramana Maharshi

#4. DEDICATION: To the nameless woman who was raped, only to see her rapist receive six month's jail time. This is not justice, but it is all I have. And it is for you.

Scott Hildreth

#5. When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation.

Victor Shamas

#6. I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

R.A. Salvatore

#7. The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

Laozi

#8. That evil was a nameless evil, an evil whose name was Gnag the Nameless.

Andrew Peterson

#9. Maybe that's the nameless quality I'm always trying to pinpoint - it's not about how a horse looks, it's about how they make you feel. Nobody can put a finger on that.

Grace Wilkinson

#10. I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed,

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

Auliq Ice

#12. What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed?

Charles Dickens

#13. We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

Ram Dass

#14. It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Audre Lorde

#16. Time and wave, sun and wind, night and fire, moons and stone. We walk through the world only once. Only one life is given by the Nameless. It is a gift, a burden, a challenge, a duty to not waste it. To serve the Highest. To the end of our road, with our Honor intact.

G. Derek Adams

#17. Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types ... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

Jan Tschichold

#18. It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.

Diana Gabaldon

#19. This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.

Peter F. Hamilton

#20. Out of the nameless and unfathomed weavings of billion-footed life, out of the dark abyss of time and duty, blind chance had brought these two together on a ship, and their first meeting had been upon the timeless and immortal seas that beat forever at the shores of the old earth.

Thomas Wolfe

#21. Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

Roger Zelazny

#22. So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy ... for all people." ... That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

Walter Wangerin

#23. Before I had a name I existed in the world as breath as the wind as a star. For a moment if I could be the breath & the wind & the nameless star I'd meet the sky that holds them as it holds me, & I'd say joyfully, namaste.

Leza Lowitz

#24. Then the germ of panic seemed to spread among the seekers. It was one thing to chase the nameless entity, but quite another to find it. Spells might be all right - but suppose they weren't?

H.P. Lovecraft

#25. Music is still the antidote for the nameless ... Music is planetary fire, an irreducible which is all sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods ...

Henry Miller

#26. You're a - you're a - "
Say it, boy. Demon of fire. Monster of smoke. Devil of sand and ash. Servant of Nardukha, Daughter of Ambadya, the Nameless, the Faceless, the Limitless. Slave of the Lamp. Jinni.
". . . a girl!" he finishes.

Jessica Khoury

#27. The anonymous puts the name in place, leaves it empty, as if the name were there only to let itself be passed through because the name does not name, but is the non-unity and non-presence of the nameless.

Maurice Blanchot

#28. Turn around. I am there, one ten-thousandth of an inch outside your range of vision. I am always there. I am the faceless thing you cannot name, the nameless thing you cannot face.

Rick Yancey

#29. Master Thorn... you have a curiously tender heart, for a thief of your appetites."
"I'm a sworn brother of the Nameless Thirteenth, the Crooked Warden, the Benefactor," said Locke. "I'm a priest.

Scott Lynch

#30. In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the Nameless makes
A Name for one like me ...
All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance,
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance.

Leonard Cohen

#31. Among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.

Roberto Bolano

#32. Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from the nameless mass.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#33. I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

Erica Jong

#34. James said you called yourself a nameless girl... Oh, nameless girl... When will you learn to trust me?"
I turned my hand over to find the Black Knife mask.
My heart tumbled and twisted. "You?" Tobiah was Black Knife?

Jodi Meadows

#35. Sometimes, I wonder .....

Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all came into it?

If so, at what point do all our identities merge into a final whole?

Are we all nameless and blank at point Infinity?

Tina Sequeira

#36. Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

Sarah Hall

#37. There was a goblin, or a trickster or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world ...

Steve Moffat

#38. In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

D.H. Lawrence

#39. He found her utterly fascinating, a nameless, homeless, naked vampire, sleeping away the day in his bed, wanted by state and federal police.

Travis Luedke

#40. The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.

Charles Portis

#41. We never did hang the wrong one but once or twice, and them fellers needed to be hung anyhow jes' on general principles."
-A NAMELESS JUDGE IN THE OLD WEST

Chris Enss

#42. Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name ... Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#43. But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

Jack Kerouac

#44. I do not say the mind gets informed by action, - bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

William Mountford

#45. The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most.

Auliq Ice

#46. We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.

Emma Bull

#47. The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

Swami Vivekananda

#48. You're scaring the dog, Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in
prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.

Garth Stein

#49. It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.

Cheyenne McCray

#50. For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.

G.K. Chesterton

#51. The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

Laozi

#52. I was going to break from the inside out if he didn't bend me into nameless shapes

C.D. Reiss

#53. So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'
'About right,' Bean replied.

Orson Scott Card

#54. Emily wasn't supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the other nameless and faceless girls I'd hooked up with over the years.

Monica Alexander

#55. World of words lost on the living /
I take my place with the walking dead /
Robbed of my voice I'm always giving /
Thousands of words to this nameless dread.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.

Stephen Richards

#57. Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#58. This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

Herman Melville

#59. Well now," the dragon says to her in a voice like rolling thunder, "who are you really here to save?

Patti Larsen

#60. But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

Ani DiFranco

#61. One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.

Edward Abbey

#62. It was late spring when Marya Morevna slid her brass key into the lock of the house on Dzerzhinskaya Street, feeling it slide, too, between her own ribs, and open her like a reliquary full of old, nameless bones.

Catherynne M Valente

#63. It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.

Andrew Smith

#64. Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease among the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.
-Strange Fruit

Seamus Heaney

#65. Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

Leon Trotsky

#66. The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Chuck D

#67. You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

John Huston

#68. With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#69. Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

Ann Radcliffe

#70. Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.

William Golding

#71. Bertie opened the vial and drank the traded words down, tasting sour cherry syrup over shaved ice, bitter lemon peel, and spices that recalled a nameless sorrow.

Lisa Mantchev

#72. If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. Who are you, Master?' he asked.
'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#74. The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

#75. She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood.

Julianna Baggott

#76. In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

Rumi

#77. I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.

M. Scott Peck

#78. See how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#79. The vast and terrible depth."
"Of course," he said.
"The inexhaustibility."
"I understand."
"The whole huge nameless thing."
"Yes, absolutely."
"The massive darkness."
"Certainly, certainly."
"The whole terrible endless hugeness."
"I know exactly what you mean.

Don DeLillo

#80. I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

Daniel Handler

#81. We're all just flowers. Small, nameless flowers. Little, barely budding things supported by something far greater than ourselves. Even so, we all dream of the day when we will eventually blossom. Free. Under the wide open sky...

Masami Tsuda

#82. Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless

Edgar Allan Poe

#83. The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

Bayard Taylor

#84. Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

Maria Edgeworth

#85. I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

H.P. Lovecraft

#86. Sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.

Ayn Rand

#87. Nameless miseries of the numberless mortals

Herman Melville

#88. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

Tehmina Durrani

#89. The desire of Kenyans is manifest. They know too well that their invincible, invisible, nameless, faceless, yet omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent rulers are condemned to serve them for life!

Levi Cheruo Cheptora

#90. I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

William Shatner

#91. Now, little human," the vampire said, placing a hand on my forehead. "Now, you will die. And hopefully I will see you again on the other side." Then, my eyes flickered shut, darkness pulled me under and, lying in the rain, in the cold embrace of a nameless vampire, I exited the world of the living.

Julie Kagawa

#92. And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.

Ray Bradbury

#93. I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

William Styron

#94. They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.

A.C. Williams

#95. Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea.

W. Somerset Maugham

#96. Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

Jack London

#97. The consolations of space are nameless things.
It was after the neurosis of winter. It was
In the genius of summer that they blew up
The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds.
It took all day to quieten the sky
And then to refill its emptiness again ...

Wallace Stevens

#98. The girl was not specifically religious; [...] yet although her faith was nameless her way of living was somehow an affirmation of life rather than a negation of it.

R.D. Laing

#99. A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Marcia Gay Harden

#100. Only in stillness the wind
Only from ice the flame.
When all were Nameless, the wise will tell
It was only by knowing the other
That they came to know themselves.

Jess E. Owen