Without Knowing Quotes
393 quotes by 319 authors
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We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what…
— Christopher Paolini
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But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And…
— Charles Baudelaire
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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad…
— Jane Austen
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Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what…
— Patricia Briggs
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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes…
— Virginia Woolf
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All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she…
— John Green
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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
— Ellen Hopkins
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I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.
— Lurlene McDaniel
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Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder…
— Milan Kundera
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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to…
— Milan Kundera
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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.
— Deanna Raybourn
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But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?
— Fernando Pessoa
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She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt…
— George MacDonald
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All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the…
— Vera Nazarian
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I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's…
— Cassandra Clare
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Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being…
— Robert Fulghum
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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one
— Voltaire
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A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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