Lauren Oliver Quotes

You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Darkness is full of possibility.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

It is good to love the unknown.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I have figured out that you never completely figure it out.

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

The dark is light enough.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.