Unknown Past Quotes

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

We don't know our own story.

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.

At the beginning of my career, I worked for a lot of people who nobody knew, who have come up to be people that everybody knows.

I've never read one book about my father.

Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

People always ask me how I got interested in the Shakers, but I have no clear-cut answer.

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

There are loads of kids out there who haven't got a clue what 'Men Behaving Badly' was; it was such a long time ago. So I'm able to spread my wings a little bit more. I was able to do it on stage over the years. Most directors and producers don't know who I am these days, anyway!

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?’ ‘Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of -‘ ‘Someone you used to know?’ Alec interjected skeptically. ‘Someone I used to be.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

My parents didn't really know one another.

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.