Knot Quotes
130 quotes by 114 authors
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This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her…
— Jodi Picoult
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of…
— Aleister Crowley
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you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
— Jacob Grimm
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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the man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate…
— Anne Sexton
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All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and…
— Karen Marie Moning
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But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would…
— Glenway Wescott
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The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful…
— Jodi Picoult
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A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find…
— P. C. Cast
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Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out…
— Richard Siken
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But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
— J M Coetzee
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You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot…
— Suzanne Collins
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Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
— Jodi Picoult
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O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.
— William Shakespeare
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Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.
— Justine Larbalestier
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If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing…
— Jay Asher
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How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
— Paul Celan
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You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do…
— Ilona Andrews
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Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The…
— Charlotte Bronte
Who Wrote These Knot Quotes
114 authors contributed a total of 130 Knot Quotes, led by these top contributors: