Unseen Horizons Quotes

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.

Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.