Unseen famous quotes

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
-- Adrienne Rich

#Unseen #Looks #Patterns

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

#Time #Justice #Unseen

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
-- Amiri Baraka

#Pain #Unseen #Torture

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
-- Anaxagoras

#Unseen #Glimpse #Appearance

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Unseen #Sides #Feels

Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
-- Anne Douglas Sedgwick

#People #Unseen #Rebel

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.
-- Anne Rice

#Unseen #World #Invisible

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Believe #Unseen #Christ

The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped.
-- Anthony Lawlor

#Unique #Unseen #Lenses

I very much believe in things unseen, both of positive and destructive energy, and I have never seen The Exorcist through from start to finish. I find it too realistic, frankly, and too disturbing for me. I absolutely believe in spiritual warfare and have experienced it in my life. So I respect Mr. Friedkin's extraordinary success with that, but it's not a picture I'll ever see.
-- Ashley Judd

#Spiritual #Believe #Unseen

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.
-- Augustus Hare

#Travel #Church #Unseen

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
-- Billy Joel

#Inspiration #Unseen #Tangible

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
-- Boyle Roche

#Hands #Unseen #Path

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.
-- Brandon Sanderson

#Believe #Heart #Unseen

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
-- Cai Guo-Qiang

#Unseen #Alchemy #Dialogue

He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.
-- Cecil Frances Alexander

#Father #Green #Unseen

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

#Heart #Two #Unseen

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman

#Unseen #Spirit #Sensitive

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman

#Prayer #Unseen #Recognition

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
-- Charles Baxter

#Writing #Unseen #Details

Step into the light. Unseen forces are cheering you on.
-- Cheryl Richardson

#Cheer #Light #Unseen

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Alaska #Unseen #Literature

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
-- Christilot Hanson-Boylen

#Horse #Wire #Unseen

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities
-- Clarence Jordan

#Dream #Reality #Unseen

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Reality #Soul #Unseen

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Departure #Unseen

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory
-- Coco Chanel

#Unseen #Accessories #Unforgettable

I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Hands #Unseen #Lines

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspirational #Unseen #Consciousness

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?
-- Dave Sim

#Profound #Unseen #Want

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

#Book #Secret #Unseen

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
-- Denis Norden

#Car #Bird #Unseen

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
-- Erica Jong

#Infidelity #Unseen #Triangles

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.
-- Eugenie Clark

#Appreciate #Unseen #Use

Faith sees the unseen things and makes them real.
-- F. E. Marsh

#Real #Unseen

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
-- Frances Wright

#Unseen #May #Causes

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Unseen #World #Wonder

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.
-- Francis Quarles

#Eye #Soul #Unseen

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.
-- Frank Laubach

#Growing Up #Hands #Unseen

Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first
-- Geneen Roth

#Long #Unseen #Levels

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
-- George Parsons Lathrop

#Character #Order #Unseen

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Enemy #Unseen

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
-- Guillermo del Toro

#Powerful #Unseen #Way

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.
-- Gunter Grass

#Memories #Unseen #Today

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.
-- Guy Finley

#Heart #Light #Unseen

what is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.
-- H. A. Guerber

#Unseen #Outcomes #Invisibility

All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Light #Vision #Unseen

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

#Space #Unseen #Serene

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
-- Hamza Yusuf

#Reality #Unseen #Realms

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
-- Helen Keller

#Giving #Comforting #Unseen

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Unseen

Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.
-- Henry Parry Liddon

#Christian #Unseen #Doctrine

Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Army #Color #Unseen

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Animal #Unseen #Telephones

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
-- Ian Mckellen

#Old Friends #Unseen #Architecture

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.
-- Ibn Arabi

#Eye #Unseen #Faces

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Spiritual #Unseen #Belief

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Race #Perfection #Unseen

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
-- Jean Racine

#Soul #Unseen #Veils

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
-- Jeri Smith-Ready

#Unseen #Temporary

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.
-- Jim George

#Spiritual #Battle #Unseen

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

#Boys #Unhappy #Unseen

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

#Stars #Dark #Unseen

All habits gather by unseen degrees.
-- John Dryden

#Unseen #Degrees #Habit

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

#Echoes #Nymphs #Unseen

At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.
-- John Milton

#Stars #Heaven #Unseen

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.
-- John Milton

#God #Men #Unseen

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.
-- John Richard Reid

#Opportunity #Healthy #Unseen

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.
-- John W. Gardner

#Special #Unseen #Politics

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.
-- John Woolman

#Moving #Exercise #Unseen

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.
-- K.P. Yohannan

#Godly #Secret #Unseen

The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.
-- Kathleen Tessaro

#Unseen #Patterns #Littles

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
-- Kenneth Grahame

#Long #Important #Unseen

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
-- Larry Norman

#Writing #Unseen #Results

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

#Men #Unseen #Invisibility

People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.
-- Lee Boyd Malvo

#People #Unseen #Truth Is

Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen
-- Leif Enger

#Dad #Thinking #Unseen

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.
-- Linda Ronstadt

#Unseen #Adages #Wounds

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?
-- Lucy Larcom

#Littles #Unseen #Doe

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
-- Martin Luther

#Wagers #Unseen #Goodness

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

#Illustration #Facts #Unseen

For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.
-- Milan Kundera

#Want #Unseen #Disappear

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.
-- Miroslav Volf

#Names #Suffering #Unseen

Faith is being loyal to you unseen reality within
-- Neville Goddard

#Reality #Unseen #Loyal

The best servant does his work unseen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Unseen #Doe #Servant

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Unseen #Beauty Of Life #Higher

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Spiritual #People #Unseen

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
-- Paul Haggis

#Believe #Creative #Unseen

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
-- Peter Senge

#Unseen #Process #Force

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
-- Plato

#Unseen #Unchanging

Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.
-- Prentice Mulford

#Tangible #Unseen #Magnet

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
-- Ralph Ellison

#Solitude #Nerves #Unseen

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen
-- Rene Descartes

#Desire #Unseen #Motto

In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.
-- Rhonda Byrne

#Believe #Law Of Attraction #Unseen

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.
-- Rumi

#Laughter #Rain #Unseen

What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.
-- Stanley Donen

#Looks #Want #Unseen

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
-- Steven Pressfield

#Serendipity #Causes #Unseen

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.
-- T. J. MacGregor

#Florida #Unseen #Spirit

If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.
-- Walter Isaacson

#Passion #Care #Unseen

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
-- William James

#Order #Grace #Unseen