Not Knowing Quotes
453 Not Knowing quotes by 390 unique authors
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There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.
— Richelle Mead
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Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.…
— Albert Einstein
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… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut,…
— Anne Rice
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
— Ally Carter
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Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the…
— Garth Nix
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A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of…
— Jean Cocteau
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My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood,…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without…
— Ray Bradbury
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Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever…
— Taylor Swift
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure
— Dorothy Allison
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I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do…
— Clarice Lispector
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself…
— Dorothy Allison
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Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids!…
— Rick Riordan
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It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.
— Margaret Atwood
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People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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The only difference now, for what it's worth, is that I know that these things don't matter. I know that I don't have to know…
— Kevin Brooks
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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
— Alison Croggon
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Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine…
— Douglas Coupland
Who Wrote These Not Knowing Quotes
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