Knowing Quotes - Page 13

• Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Fall, Helping

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• When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atheist, Mean, Sleep

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• We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  "The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1993.

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• I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

  W. S. Merwin

  Writing, Said, Ifs

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• I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Events, Way, Causes

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• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

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• Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences.

  J.V. Hart

  Flames, Decision, Consequence

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• The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

  Paul Theroux

  Revenge, Party, Home

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Heart, Hands, Mind

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• I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.

  Jean Ferris

  Believe, Way, Easy

  Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

  Laurie R. King

  Thinking, People, Sparks

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• morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Pain, Moving

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• the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

  Toni Morrison

  Knowing Everything, Feelings, Dry

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• Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Love, Life, Wisdom

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• It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

  Libba Bray

  Powerful, Want, Wonder

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• Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.

  Jack Gilbert

  Angel, Color, Shoes

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.218, Knopf

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

  Hannah Arendt

  Numbers, Development, Demand

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• She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

  Voltaire

  Crush, Voice, Spokes

  Voltaire (2003). “Candide”, p.16, Bantam Classics

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• Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Simple, Sometimes, Break

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.17, Macmillan

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• He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Running, Dare, Consoling

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• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Waiting, New Life

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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• He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Two, Space

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.510, Pan Macmillan

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• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Self

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