{"quotes":[{"text":"I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in me an insight: that this moment of terror before resignation was possibly the only ascertainable moment of truth we can ever know in life.","author":"Carl Watson","tags":["life","survival","terror","the-unknown","truth"],"id":1793,"author_id":"Carl+Watson"},{"text":"There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill towns with their narrow lanes and often narrow minds were all I really knew and I feared that if I left it behind, I would lose it and not find anything to replace it. The other reason I didn’t want to go was because I wanted to be the kind of person who stays, who builds a stable and predictable life. But I wasn’t one of the people, nor would I ever be.  I had a vision for my life. It wasn’t clear, but it was beautiful and involved leaving my history and my poverty behind me. I wasn’t happy about who I was or where I was, but I didn’t worry about it. It didn’t define me. We’re always in the making. God always has us on his anvil, melting, bending and shaping us for another purpose.  It was time to change, to find a new purpose.","author":"John William Tuohy","tags":["leaving-home","purpose-of-life","the-unknown"],"id":11103,"author_id":"John+William+Tuohy"},{"text":"I like paths that lead to no certain end, that keep me wondering where I am.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["life","the-unknown","wonder"],"id":48871,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.","author":"Storm Constantine","tags":["adventure","fear","reality","the-unknown"],"id":80021,"author_id":"Storm+Constantine"},{"text":"Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.","author":"Mark Haddon","tags":["answers","mystery","the-unknown"],"id":84541,"author_id":"Mark+Haddon"},{"text":"He doesn't mind if he dies... Indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.","author":"William Golding","tags":["death","fear","sleep","the-unknown"],"id":99607,"author_id":"William+Golding"},{"text":"I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.","author":"William Hope Hodgson","tags":["reading","the-unknown"],"id":118995,"author_id":"William+Hope+Hodgson"},{"text":"Where the signposts end, the trail begins.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["adventure","signposts","the-unknown","trails"],"id":163459,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["confusion","mystery","the-unknown"],"id":196557,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.","author":"Storm Constantine","tags":["depression","life","sadness","the-unknown","unhappiness"],"id":242048,"author_id":"Storm+Constantine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}