Knows Quotes - Page 31

• Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Special, Tools

  "Wanting to Die" l. 7 (1966)

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• I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.

  Laura Moriarty

  Silly, Thinking, Opposites

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• What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

  Aryn Kyle

  Being Sad, Needs, Reason

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  It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Golden Sayings of Epictetus". Book translated by Hastings Crossley, 2012.

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• That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Kissing, Stills

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• All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Men, Long

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• God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire

  William S. Burroughs

  Karma, Queens, Stupid

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• You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

  George Eliot

  Feelings, Duty

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• It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

  Stephen King

  Things In Life, Lucky, Next

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.

  Anita Shreve

  Two, Long, People

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• Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Self, Answers, Loathing

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, 1995 - 1997.

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• I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

  Cassandra Clare

  Life And Love, Men, Promise

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Long, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

  Sean Covey

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Communication, Emotions Feelings

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• I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

  Anne Frank

  Courage, Work, Women

  Anne Frank (1952). “The diary of a young girl”

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• Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

  Kate Atkinson

  Rocks, Self, Cells

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

  Mario Puzo

  Blow, Hands, Life Is Like

  Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

  Bram Stoker

  Fashion, Able, Dresses

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.86, Book Jungle

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• There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Loneliness, Soul, Quality

  Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact thing every night, night after night. Total silence. Absolutely nothing. That's why I chose it. I know for a fact nothing bad can happen to me in here.

  Charles Yu

  Sleep, Past, Night

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.15, Vintage

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• Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

  Charles Yu

  Moving, People, Constant

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.22, Vintage

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• All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.

  Susane Colasanti

  Limbs, Mines, Ifs

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.22, Penguin

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• People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their actions. And you have to listen. I don't know what will happen with your lady friend. I think she's a nice person, and I hope you get what you want. But do me a favor: Listen, and don't ignore what you hear.

  Justin Halpern

  Nice, Thinking, Always Trying

  "Sh*t My Dad Says". Book by Justin Halpern, May 4, 2010.

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• Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

  Jim Elliot

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Ordinary

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