Knot Quotes

130 quotes by 112 authors

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
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
A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it. — Laozi
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
In the history of a soulâ€™s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go… — Virchand Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
â€ŽThe way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time. — Terence McKenna
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. — Arthur Koestler
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart. — Cooper Edens
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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