Unfathomed Quotes

#1. The Past
the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf
the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Walt Whitman

#2. In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#4. Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

Elizabeth Prentiss

#5. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

Thomas Gray

#6. The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

Hartley Coleridge

#7. We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.

Richard Taylor

#8. What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!

J.G. Holland

#9. There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence
I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#11. 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

#12. Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

John Wesley

#13. O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

Christina Rossetti

#14. A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

H. Rider Haggard

#16. Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.

H.P. Lovecraft

#17. We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

Pascal Mercier

#19. Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

Giacomo Leopardi

#20. All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

Cormac McCarthy

#21. The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#22. The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?

Rumi

#23. I attempted to hold onto some part of reality as my pussy wept for him.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#24. I only got into comedy to get laid

Jack Whitehall

#25. The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

#26. There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#27. Eventually we all need someone to try and save us; even if they fail, the fact that someone tried might be what matters most in the end.

Jay Crownover

#28. I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than ending at the skin.

Robert Macfarlane

#29. Getting older does not tend to make you more normal,

Brandon Sanderson

#30. If you are not trying new ways every single day in your company, you will not get to your optimal point.

Vineet Nayar

#31. For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.

Deena Metzger

#32. If there is anything I've learned being the mother of many children, it's that you'd better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.

Chris Jordan

#33. Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Malcolm Bradbury

#34. It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

Sal Albanese

#35. Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

Theodore Zeldin