Knowing Quotes - Page 35

• You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lonely, Feelings, Conclusion

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.144, Penguin

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• I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.

  Koushun Takami

  Falling In Love, Nice, Dying

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• We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Mind, Gone

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.865, Ballantine Books

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• I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

  Mira Grant

  Nice, Ruined

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• To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Passion, Not Knowing, Ultimate

  "The Sign and Its Children". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "The Over-Sky Sign" (p. 5), 2000.

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• How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

  Suzanne Collins

  Way, Chance, Loving Him

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Clever, Hate, Heart

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at.

  Rachel Vincent

  Names, Ideas, Skins

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.139, Harlequin

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• People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

  Stephen Fry

  Beach, People, Ignorant

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• One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

  Anthony Powell

  People, Important, World

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement”, University of Chicago Press

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• Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

  Miranda Kerr

  Moving, Goal, Feelings

  Miranda Kerr (2010). “Treasure Yourself”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

  Patrick Ness

  Rivers, Waiting, Sitting

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

  Norton Juster

  Care, Matter, Lost

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Maps, This Life, Knots

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

  Tonya Hurley

  Eye, Ideas, Scary

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

  S. E. Hinton

  Beautiful, Believe, Kids

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hate, Book, Medical

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• The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Heart, Secret, Mind

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.234, Penguin

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• It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

  Idries Shah

  Caring, Who Cares, Matter

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.44, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Knowing and believing are two different things.

  Josh Lanyon

  Believe, Two, Different

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• Small facts lead to great knowing.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Facts

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.130, Penguin

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• How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wind, Soul, Watches

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving, Galadriel, Courses

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Ray Bradbury

  Hero, Men, Wicked

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