Knowing Quotes - Page 27

• They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  World, Limits, Impossible

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• And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

  Alison Croggon

  Singing, Together, Different

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• Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

  Kate Morton

  Fun, Keeping Secrets, Likes

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Powerful, Heart

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

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• Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Grieving, Savages

  William Faulkner (1967). “Light in August”, Random House Inc

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• What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Needs, Intimacy, Elixir

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

  Ann Brashares

  Mean, Way, Scared

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.415, Delacorte Press

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• So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Long, Body

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1663, Simon and Schuster

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• Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

  Ray Bradbury

  Acting, Cliffs, Knows

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Moving On, Ignorance, Feigning

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• poets are born knowing the language of angels

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Angel, Language, Poet

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.171, Macmillan

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• I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.54, Dial Press

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• If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

  Dan Abnett

  Firsts, Speak, Window

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

  Pearl Cleage

  Problem, Possibility, Pretending

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• The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Blood, Law, Vampire

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• ... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Cities, Listening, Storm

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• It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

  Erich Segal

  Pain, Done, Not Knowing

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

  Dorothy Allison

  Two, Different, Three

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• We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Men, Childhood

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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Levels

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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• And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

  Sarah Dessen

  Air, Toes, Cliffs

  "This Lullaby". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2002.

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• There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

  Jude Deveraux

  Men, Desire, Ancient

  Jude Deveraux (2008). “Secrets: A Novel”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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