Never Quotes (page 497)

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• unknowns
• beings
• unknown things

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. Anita Brookner

• feeling
• she
• manly

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. Zora Neale Hurston

• emotional
• science
• magic

Magic is not, and never has been a substitute for science, but is rather a constructive activity with a specific social function, and one that is still operative. [...] The aim of magical objects and magical rites is to arouse emotion in the group and to make such aroused emotions effective agents. Herbert Read

• imagination
• men
• engagement

Helen,' said she, after a thoughtful silence, 'do you ever think about marriage?''Yes, aunt, often.''And do you ever contemplate the possibility of being married yourself, or engaged, before the season is over?''Sometimes; but I don't think it at all likely that I ever shall.''Why so?''Because, I imagine, there must be only a very, very few men in the world that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one... Anne Bronte

• drinking
• queen
• sleep

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way. C. S. Lewis

• change
• sometimes
• changing

agony sometimes changes formbut it never ceases foranybody. Charles Bukowski

• god
• words
• spoke

If he is not the word of God God never spoke. Cormac McCarthy

• world
• misunderstanding
• feeling

Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming serenity. After all, we live in a world of perfect trust in The Maker, and we are keenly aware that humans often do not, and we feel an active sorrow for them. Anne Rice

• mind
• bad
• mindfulness

It's bad enough sitting in a car, never mind driving it. Cornelia Funke

• play
• manly
• parted

Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man. Quentin Crisp

• want
• ever
• wants

You always want the very most what you can never, ever have. Stephenie Meyer

• moonlight
• night
• wine

Each pedestrian could see no halo but his or her own, which never deserted the head-shadow, whatever its vulgar unsteadiness might be; but adhered to it, and persistently beautified it; till the erratic motions seemed an inherent part of the irradiation, and the fumes of their breathing a component of the night's mist; and the spirit of the scene, and of the moonlight, and of Nature, seemed harmoniously to mingle with the spirit of wine. Thomas Hardy

• soldier
• words
• like

I sent out words like soldiers to battle and they never returned. John Mortimer

• santa
• my mother
• christmas eve

I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was a wicked pervert who would cut off my peepee with a pair of scissors... if I didn't stop chattering about him, he would be certain to put me on his list and look me up. Christmas was never the same after that, but at least I still have my peepee. Dean Koontz

• past
• joy
• earth

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment... Jean-Jacques Rousseau