Not Knowing Quotes - Page 7

• The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Knowing, Problem, Humans

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Sorry, Taken, Eye

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• I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Thinking Of You, Knowing, Waiting

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Stupid, Thinking, Knowing

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.74, Penguin

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• Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Knowing, Sometimes, Realizing

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• Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

  P. L. Travers

  Life, Hero, Feet

  "The World of the Hero". Book by P. L. Travers, 1976.

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• Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
  Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Relationship, Distance, Love Is

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• There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Knowing, Weapons

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Art, War

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• The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Knowing

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 16, 1517.

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• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Knowing, Silence

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• No one is perfect in this world. Forgive people for not knowing better and learn to move on.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Moving, Knowing Better

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• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Knowing, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Knowing, May

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 1, l. [19]

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• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Destiny, Knowing, Goal

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

  Radha Mitchell

  Travel, Adventure, Character

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• I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.

  Bruce Lee

  Lying, Positivity, Knowing

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• A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.

  Justin Bieber

  Girl, Cocky, Knowing

  "Justin Bieber’s Guide To Life" by Lauren Duca, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 07, 2013.

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• Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Knowing, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.177, Bantam

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• Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Couple, Hate

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• Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it?
  Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people.
  This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Truth, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Trust, Knowing

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  Walter Bagehot

  Knowing, People, Mind

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.337

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• I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Thinking, Knowing, Wonder

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