Life Is About Not Knowing Quotes

#1. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Gilda Radner

#2. There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Ethan Hawke

#3. This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak - the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.

Joseph Conrad

#4. But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

Celeste Ng

#5. But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it's about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There's not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we're in the middle . . . and it's okay to camp out there for a while.

Melissa Tagg

#6. Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Finding love is all about taking a risk, taking control of your social life, and knowing that you won't waste today because tomorrow is a gift.

Fran Greene

#8. It's not about being religious. It's about knowing that life and the world are way too intricate to just end like this." He

Viola Shipman

#9. I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Impact is never about knowing all the steps ahead, but about taking one intentional step after the other.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#11. There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.

David Toop

#12. One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

Alessandro Manzoni

#13. Love isn't about happy endings where knowing every day from here on out will be full of sunshine and rainbows. Love is about obstacles, about travelling through life together despite them. Obstacles make us stronger.

R.K. Ryals

#14. Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat

Howard Zinn

#15. Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering.

Debasish Mridha

#16. If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

Josh Hartnett

#17. I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

Kyla Pratt

#18. I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

Sarah Dessen

#19. He felt that his life was about to turn around, but Burt had no way of knowing that his fairy tale would eventually turn into a nightmare.

Jillian Cornell

#20. Life is about knowing when to let go and when to hold on.

Bijou Hunter

#21. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can't wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.

Bob Marley

#22. I study life by being close to it, this "native life" about which so little is known, and which is so disfigured by the descriptions of those who, not knowing it, insist on describing it anyway.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#23. ...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road.

Garon Whited

#24. The thing about knowing you're broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.

John Goode

#25. Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

Peter Ellis

#27. That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going ... yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction ... or in pursuit of a precise goal.

Charles R. Swindoll

#28. Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Franz Grillparzer

#29. Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#30. Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

K.d. Lang

#31. Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

Robertson Davies

#32. We rally about one side not doing what the other side should be, whereas the other side feels the same way.. When both have not figured out that one has to be different than the other for the other to be attracted.

Apply this in every way along your day.. Either way your right

Jonathan Bailey

#33. About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my knowing. Among others, the fact that they are never seen.

Protagoras

#34. I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

Tom Cruise

#35. It struck Harold afresh how life could change in an instant. You could be doing something so everyday - walking your partner's dog, putting on your shoes - and not knowing that everything you wanted you were about to lose.

Rachel Joyce

#36. Living the abundant life is different than knowing about it. It's time to begin practicing the life we were made for.

Mark Beeson

#37. The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

Sophie Kinsella

#38. When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#39. Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.
It's staying with [them] now because [they] need you; it's knowing you ... will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures - when all that's on the shelf and done with.

Brian Moore

#40. Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Marlo Thomas

#41. Knowing how to make a life mean something, to wring out its worth when it was right there in one's hands instead of just wishing about it afterward, or imagining how it could have been, or should have been, different.

Deborah Reed

#42. It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

John Travolta

#43. I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

Jeff Kinney

#44. Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

Gaelen Foley

#45. The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.

Whitney Otto

#46. Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Taylor Swift

#47. Having a 'taste for life' is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.

Fennel Hudson

#48. You can't live an obedient life and miss an adventure. Following the commands of Christ is not just about behavior. Behavior modification is not an end in itself in the New Testament. Transformation is about knowing the truth and the truth setting you free.

Beth Moore

#49. When and how the most painful of situations is going to be resolved and redeemed is no mystery to God. Knowing this truth about God's complete knowledge really does help me accept the unacceptable in my life.

Elizabeth George

#50. You were the only one
who understood
the futility of the
arrangement of
life;
all the others were only
displeased with
trivial segments,
carped
nonsensically about
nonsense;
Jane, you were
killed by
knowing too much.

Charles Bukowski

#51. Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.

Richard Tuttle

#52. About never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened

Gayle Forman

#53. Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.

Mother Teresa

#54. True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#55. Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight

Laurie Nadel

#56. The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you'd always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you'd thought you were as a child and rejoicing in its living, breathing actuality.

Christopher Hawke

#57. I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#58. No," I say. "Actually, the first time I saw one in real life, I thought of the Great Pit of Carkoon in Return of the Jedi." "OK, well, I officially take back my previous comment about you knowing a thing or two about vaginas." "Understandable." "What

Matthew Norman

#59. Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

Ed Sheeran

#60. The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Oscar Wilde

#61. My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

Kate Voegele

#62. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

Abraham Hicks