Knowing Quote by Anonymous

The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my…

— Sylvia Plath

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood…

— Charlotte Bronte

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that…

— Anne Lamott

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because…

— Jamie Muir

All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head.…

— Sylvia Plath

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two…

— Laurie R. King

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no…

— Jack London

I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the…

— Doris Lessing

The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my…

— David Foster Wallace

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

— Charles Bukowski

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped…

— Alice Oswald