Famous quotes containing the words unknown, unquiet and/or grave:
“The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky,
And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves,
Are shaken with earth’s old and weary cry.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“... 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)