Unfamiliarity Quotes

“Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.”

“He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.”

“The unfamiliarity of the subconscious mind can turn one into one's worst enemy of happiness and success.”

“All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle to the grave, but I have had a comfortable feeling that, however ordinary my enterprises may have been, they had at any rate the advantage of containing, for me, an element of sustained unfamiliarity. I am one of those persons who begin life by exclaiming they've "never seen anything like this before" and die in the hope that they may say the same of heaven.”

“Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!”

“It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.”

“The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain.”