Unseen Events Quotes

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, moving - so I'm not actually privy to all the weird stuff that's happening around me, but for a lot of the cast and crew, that's what I hear stories from them about weird stuff happening.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

You ain't seen nothing yet, and the best is yet to come.

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.

A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.