Famous quotes containing the words unknown, unquiet and/or grave:
“There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics.... Error is certaintys constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”
—Louis Aragon (18971982)
“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)