Knowing Quotes - Page 19

• Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Crazy, Schizophrenia, Happenings

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• Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

  Rick Riordan

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Not Knowing, Watches

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.168, Modern Library

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• He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  War, Circles, Vicious

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• All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

  Doris Lessing

  Happiness, Moving, Skins

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

  Andrew Vachss

  Ideas, People, Want

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• All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Children, Father, Grandmother

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Together, Needs, World

  Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.182, Penguin

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• So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Lying, Mean

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

  Deb Caletti

  Feelings, Littles, Fuzzy

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

  Joe Meno

  Moving, Heart, Dark

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.114, Akashic Books

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• 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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• She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Hands, Waiting

  BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD (1988). “TO BE THE BEST”

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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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• A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Heart, Cutting

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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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• The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

  Laura Lippman

  Past, Foundation, Remember

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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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