Top 100 Quotes About Unseen
#1. We constantly fight an unseen enemy. God has assured us the victory, but He has told us to take an aggressive stand against the evil one, covering ourselves in His armor. We're going to win, but victory is going to take blood, sweat, and tears - His blood, our sweat, and tears from us both.
Beth Moore
#2. We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
Robert M. Pirsig
#3. Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
Guy Finley
#4. Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#5. But surely the idea that one might slip away unseen and take up another life is nearly universal. Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#6. Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#7. When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.
Cormac McCarthy
#8. He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
Martial
#9. Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
Aeschylus
#10. A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
Paul Haggis
#11. The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.
Ole Hallesby
#12. But to overpower the habit, we must recognize which craving is driving the behavior. If we're not conscious of the anticipation, then we're like the shoppers who wander, as if drawn by an unseen force, into Cinnabon.
Charles Duhigg
#13. For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
Tennessee Williams
#14. Pain has many faces ... the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains ... a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.
Billy Graham
#15. Love doesn't live in first glances. Life doesn't dwell in second chances. Our path exists in unseen messages.
Pepper Winters
#16. Apparently we believe
in the words
and through them
but we long beyond them
for what is unseen
what remains out of reach
what is kept covered
W.S. Merwin
#18. Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Anaxagoras
#19. By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.
Neil Postman
#20. Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
Chanakya
#21. Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.
John D. Barrow
#22. There are certain kinds of currency you acquire in life. Most of it is ephemeral. But friendship and faith in the unseen world and the commitment to be true unto thine own self are the human glue that you never give up, not for any reason.
James Lee Burke
#23. What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.
Laura Hillenbrand
#24. On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.
Lori Lansens
#25. Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#26. I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.
Jim Shepard
#27. [There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
Michael Hansmeyer
#28. Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.
Adrienne Rich
#29. For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.
L.M. Fields
#31. God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.
David Jeremiah
#32. Understand the secret unseen ways of heart to heart contact like this:
When two lamps are being lit.
The lamps will remain separate
But their light will become intermixed
Jalaluddin Rumi
#33. The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
Plato
#34. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
#35. People worked us across the plaza and down to the parking structure. I moved with the crush of bodies the way a leaf is carried by the wind, a part of an unseen world, yet not.
Robert Crais
#36. O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#37. Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth.
Holly Black
#38. I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
Deborah Lawrenson
#39. Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Francis Bacon
#40. Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
Matthew Simpson
#41. Owls are nocturnal, swooping down silently, with the soft edges of their feathers muffling the sound of the wings, before pouncing and swallowing their prey whole. Death unseen, death unheard, death from above - the military drones of the animal kingdom
B.V. Lawson
#42. She was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
L.M. Montgomery
#43. Yes, they know her. They touch her lips, gather her words, fly away with the message, disappear into the dark. Pass through the membrane that separates this world from the unseen world that lies just underneath it.
Margaret Atwood
#44. A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.
H.P. Lovecraft
#46. The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.
Os Guinness
#47. Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision.
Jean Toomer
#48. There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
Denis Norden
#49. 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.
Norman Cousins
#50. It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
#51. It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen.
Alice Hoffman
#52. Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there.
PureDragonWolf
#53. Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
Jean Racine
#54. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
#55. 87. That I might drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim: Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget what thou among leaves hast never known, the weariness, the fever and the fret.
John Keats
#56. She had to remember that there was power and magic in life: that when the sun laid a ray as warm as a hand on her head as they left the graveyard, it could be an unseen hand, reaching out to her with love. Only changed, and not strange forever.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#57. We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.
Buddy Ryan
#58. For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart
not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.
Leslea Tash
#59. It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.
Sarah Smiley
#60. This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.
David Mitchell
#61. I could taste the peace around me and I wondered how long that would last. The night was so dark, so velvety that I felt as if it was tangible, as if I could breathe it in, as well. I felt it clinging to my skin and caressing my body like unseen hands.
Courtney Cole
#62. The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
Gus Van Sant
#63. All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard
#64. God, who oft descends to visit men
Unseen, and through their habitations walks
To mark their doings.
John Milton
#65. For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
Madeleine L'Engle
#66. So that is what history is, people and places that disappear, or are beheaded, or get damaged or nearly do, and things and places and people that get tortured and burned and so on. But this does not mean that history is not the unseen things as well.
Ali Smith
#67. The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.
Nicole Krauss
#68. Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan
#69. Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and we are lulled by this intoxication into forgetting the unseen horizons beyond.
Gustave Flaubert
#70. Overmedication: We're killing ourselves. Degrading
often unseen & often unfelt
our kidneys, livers, vital organs. Until it's too late. And we croak. Kidney failure, heart failure, liver failure. We do it to ourselves
David R. Wommack
#71. When the weather is bright everyone can see everything in the Valley of Life; the talent is to see the unseen when The Valley is foggy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. one of my core management beliefs: If you don't try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
Ed Catmull
#73. We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.
John Richard Reid
#74. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.
Jon Stewart
#75. Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen - all of these make surfing very special
Shaun Tomson
#76. You can live each day in a world filled with 'problems,' or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions ... eager for you to find them. The decision is yours ... both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create.
Michael McMillian
#77. The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.
James Joyce
#78. I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.
Carol Lee
#79. Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
Rumi
#80. When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.
Joseph Campbell
#81. Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves.
Jerome K. Jerome
#82. When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.
Cecelia Ahern
#83. Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#85. One joy of life in the north comes after a winter storm, when the sky, freed of its burden, has paled, and the glow of the unseen sun is everywhere reflected by the snow, so that all things stand out sharp and clear.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#86. I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.
Joan Didion
#87. America sends its criminals to unseen corners of our society, where they live they live monotonous lives that take away autonomy and choice, and where their time is completely owned by the institution.
Erika Camplin
#88. The sky is different here. I can count the stars we see upon my fingers. And as I sit beside my friends, I know I'll not be cast aside unseen.
Fox Benwell
#89. There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Woody Allen
#90. I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, "Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest." This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't
think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.
Bill Hicks
#91. Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
Matthew Arnold
#92. it's the things you don't see, in this world or any other--the hidden things, unseen, lost between frames--that will always make all the difference.
Gemma Files
#93. The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future; excuses are the reasons why you shift that task.
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
John Milton
#95. To risk is to willingly place your life in the hand of an unseen God and an unknown future, then to watch him come through. He starts to get real when you live like that.
Jennie Allen
#96. O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius
#97. I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
P.G. Wodehouse
#98. This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.
Thomas Merton
#99. Rather, there must be seeds, unseen, combined 895 in many ways and common to many things.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#100. The freezing rain sifts down, handfuls of shining rice thrown by some unseen celebrant. Wherever it hits, it crystallizes into a granulated coating of ice.
Margaret Atwood
