Knot Quotes
130 quotes by 112 authors
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our…
— Sri Aurobindo
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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else…
— John Donne
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A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
— Laozi
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I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become…
— Virginia Heffernan
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In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go…
— Virchand Gandhi
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If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into…
— Duane Michals
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The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the…
— John Cowper Powys
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Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant…
— R. J. Palacio
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Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm…
— Arthur Koestler
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Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his…
— Vidya Balan
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People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon…
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
— Terence McKenna
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut…
— Sri Chinmoy
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How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple…
— Rosemary Verey
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In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
— Arthur Koestler
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If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.
— Cooper Edens
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Who Wrote These Knot Quotes
112 authors contributed a total of 130 Knot Quotes, led by these top contributors: