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Knowing Quotes (page 724)

John Keats quote: "Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little..."
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. John Keats
Graham Greene quote: "She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to..."
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy. Graham Greene
Paulo Coelho quote: "It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God."
It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God. Paulo Coelho
The Creator has? I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. Israel Zangwill
Peter Barnes quote: "How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I..."
How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself. Peter Barnes
Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived two thousand five hundred years ago, how could we not be moved to know that they made verses, were spectators of the world, that they sheltered in light, lasting words something of their ponderous, fleeting life, words that fulfill a long destiny? Jorge Luis Borges
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. Giacomo Casanova
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god, for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point? R. A. Salvatore
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. Friedrich Nietzsche
Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in... Paulo Coelho
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 recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. Jean Cocteau
Mitch Albom quote: "It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life...."
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made. Mitch Albom
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night. H. P. Lovecraft

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