Top 39 Unacknowledged Quotes
#1. Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne
#2. Men confide, lust rhetorically, copulate hypothetically with women of unacknowledged fantasy.
Aleksandar Hemon
#3. I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.
Henry Miller
#4. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear - civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.
Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Men's Needs.
Arundhati Roy
#5. The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,
Arthur Miller
#6. The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.
Jennifer Baumgardner
#7. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
Bruce Sterling
#8. As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.
Susan Shreve
#9. What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don't understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip - even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.
Timothy B. Tyson
#10. The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.
Anita Brookner
#11. The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.
-- Making Magic, p. 23
Randall Styers
#13. I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
Gerry Adams
#14. For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
Desmond Tutu
#15. What isn't transformed, in other words, will be transmitted. That's the danger of unacknowledged desire.6
Anonymous
#16. Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.
Anthony Liccione
#17. The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#18. A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
John Eldredge
#19. An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.
Alice Miller
#20. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear
civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Arundhati Roy
#21. Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us - and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone
Wilkie Collins
#22. Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.
Alexandra Katehakis
#23. Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
Iain Banks
#24. I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.
David Byrne
#25. Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.
Vironika Tugaleva
#26. In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.
Colum McCann
#27. Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.
Dov Davidoff
#28. How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.
Camille Paglia
#29. The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to be interviewed. It is usually expressed in innuendos, passing remarks, moods, cartoons, hints, insinuations, unacknowledged assumptions, and jokes.
Dick Keyes
#31. I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.
Tracy Kidder
#32. The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler
#33. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.
Jane Jacobs
#34. Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.
Jennifer DuBois
#36. In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has always been that way. Maybe the only way he or she can be acknowledged is to be connected with some movement, be it religious or political.
Gerald Stern
#37. Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
Laurens Van Der Post
#38. Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right.
Frances Mayes
#39. The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe
fear and awe of the State.
Edward Abbey
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