Knot Quotes

130 quotes by 114 authors

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. — Gabriela Mistral
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English… — Hilaire Belloc
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. — Frederick Lenz
How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in… — Frederick Lenz
If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat. — Alice Cooper
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each… — Meister Eckhart
I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot. — Rachel Gibson
Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me… — Anne Lamott
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and… — Olivia Thirlby
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for… — Hunter S. Thompson
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make… — Italo Calvino
in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel… — Adrienne Rich
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then… — Diane Setterfield
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure… — Veronica Franco
Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse… — Italo Calvino

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