Quotes About Not Knowing

#1. There's nothing worse than not knowing how the one you love feels about you. Of course, in a way, it's not knowing that makes love so exciting...

Hisaya Nakajo

#2. I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

Danny Meyer

#3. I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.

Patricia Goldbach

#4. Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.

Jonathan Bennett

#5. I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

William Faulkner

#6. This excited you, doesn't it? Not knowing where we're going next. What's going to happen. Who might turn that corner. Not knowing if I'm going to kiss you or fuck you. I'll give you a hint, Angie. I'm going to do both.

J. Kenner

#7. None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

Metrodorus Of Chios

#8. The core issue in traumatization is that survivors have been unable to realize fully what has happened to them and how it affects their lives and who they are. In other words, the inability to realize involves many ways of not knowing massive psychic trauma

Onno Van Der Hart

#9. Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?

Neil Young

#10. If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Terry Pratchett

#11. People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about Cuba and Russia and the economy, because beneath the hard structure of words was an abyss of ignorance and not-knowing; and, in a sense, of not wanting to know.

Hanif Kureishi

#12. An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

Zhuge Liang

#13. Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

Robin Sharma

#14. We can imagine the two of them having this conversation: Consciousness: "Hey, watcha doing over there?" Subconsciousness: "Trust me, you're better off not knowing." Self-protection

Hugh Howey

#15. Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Laozi

#16. The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

Argus Hamilton

#17. I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

Leslie Jamison

#18. Sometimes not knowing helps you to get along with your life better than how much knowing must have.

Eliza

#19. I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

Leo Kottke

#20. The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

Erich Segal

#21. I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

Philip Schultz

#22. You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and with the inquiry becoming alive you cannot vegetate. Then life becomes an exploration, an adventure.

Rajneesh

#23. Finally told her son the gruesome truth about his life. I could have told them about the feeling of not knowing your roots, and about the angst you suffer when you discover you will be forever denied access to it. It's a feeling we know better than anyone else.

Erik Valeur

#24. If your opinion is negative, the world is better off not knowing it.

K.L. Adams

#25. Maybe there was something safe in the not knowing, something that made it feel like all the mundane questions you were usually required to ask were not all that important after all.

Jennifer E. Smith

#26. Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!

Jessica Simpson

#27. I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

Lauren Graham

#28. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.

Melina Marchetta

#29. The best part of falling in love is the mystery and excitement of not knowing. The worst part of falling in love is the mystery and agony of not knowing.

Gayle Hayes

#30. I want to avoid people, because there's only one thing worse than being homeless, and that's people who are not, knowing that you are.

Craig Stone

#31. Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful ...

Jose N. Harris

#32. The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day ...

Donald Barthelme

#33. There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.

Habeeb Akande

#34. Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.

Jack Kerouac

#35. The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

#36. The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now

Haruki Murakami

#37. But fact is, it's been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be
with anyone.

Gillian Flynn

#38. I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

Naomi Grossman

#39. Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

Debbi Fields

#40. Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

Lauren Myracle

#41. Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

Luanne Rice

#42. It is no easy thing to trust in God, to walk away from a career, to give it all up not knowing if you can ever get it back or even come close. But I did it. I heeded his voice, and somehow I found peace about it.

Joanna Gaines

#43. For everyone who never smiled in school
photos, for all who've wandered city streets
not knowing the where they were
or feeling alone, I've packed kindness.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#44. Some fieldmen, and particularly the clever ones, take a perverse pride in not knowing the whole picture. Their art consists in the deft handling of loose ends, and stops there stubbornly.

John Le Carre

#45. Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams

Dan Davin

#46. But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing.

Samantha Schutz

#47. Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction ... What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#48. As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Mother Teresa

#49. When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or deformed? Like everything else did, it came from somewhere. It's really exciting, and not knowing is part of the magic and mystery.

Kieran Bew

#50. Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

John Welwood

#51. Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Susan Wojcicki

#52. Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence
a surprise.

Vera Nazarian

#53. It's the song of a man trying to forget a woman, but then he realizes it's impossible, that not being with her is harmful and he dies of despair, not knowing whether she still wants to be with him.

Amanda Laneley

#54. In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

Sam Shepard

#55. Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time ... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

Joe Montana

#56. It's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

Turcois Ominek

#57. I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

Jack Dee

#58. Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

Rajneesh

#59. Not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

B.F. Skinner

#60. Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

Joan Rivers

#61. But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

Samuel Beckett

#62. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbour, with all my crooked heart

John Green

#63. Are you so scared people will hate you?"
"What?" I stare at him, not knowing how
to react. "What are you talking about?"
He gestures at the phone. "Your emails are
like one big cry. Kiss, kiss, hug, hug, please
like me, please like me!

Sophie Kinsella

#64. I was sad but it felt like the sadness was pouring out of me instead of poisoning me. I felt like I had been sleeping in the dark, not knowing I was in a coffin until someone pried the lid off. It hurt, but it was good, the way love is supposed to be.

Elliott James

#65. A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

James McBride

#66. Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

#67. A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

Brenda Shoshanna

#68. To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing ... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

Joan Reardon

#69. Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

Oren Peli

#70. The truth is the truth. You are better off knowing the truth than not knowing it.

Jack Canfield

#71. The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

Rolf Potts

#72. The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

Elon Musk

#73. Well I think not knowing is a good thing,
Knowing that I don't know, even better,
But only when I'm willing to do something about it...

Me

#74. I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

Rosalia De Castro

#75. Not knowing ... that could be as hard to handle as despair.

Eileen Wilks

#76. It's impossible, the not-knowing, but it's better than getting the wrong answer.

Stephanie Perkins

#77. I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

Robert Pattinson

#78. Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line.

Prerna Kumar

#79. Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.

Akechi Mitsuhide

#80. Doesn't it scare you having your death close by all the time?" said Lyra. "Why ever would it? If he's there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.

Philip Pullman

#81. A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

#82. It's a dark place, not knowing.
It's difficult to surrender to.
But I guess it's where we live most of the time. I guess it's where we all live, so maybe it doesn't have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.

Nina LaCour

#83. Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Francois Fenelon

#84. There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Nick Park

#85. The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

Shane Filan

#86. One of the privileges of not knowing who you are is that you can pretend to be anyone you like.

Cameron Jace

#87. Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it real insanity to go through the world ignoring people in front of you? All your friends were strangers before they became friends. I sneak glances at the darling strangers on the subway.

Dakota Lane

#88. I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

Dave Mustaine

#89. I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech, preconceived judgments and so many others.

Pope Francis

#90. The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

John Green

#91. But, your ass still haven't told her about LaNyla! She's the girl's god mommy; not knowing she step momma too!

Danielle Marcus

#92. I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

Jennifer Aniston

#93. My first crush use to think I hate her cuz never find time to chat with her , is only Hi and hellow that all , but not knowing that deep down in my soul and heart she is the first and last I want , but hey is fine now , she end up with some fox who loves her ,

Sikhwetha Maanda

#94. That's why I read, as a stranger,
My being as if it were pages.
Not knowing what will come
And forgetting what has passed,
I note in the margin of my reading
What I thought I felt.
Rereading, I wonder: "Was that me?"
God knows, because he wrote it.

Fernando Pessoa

#95. Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.

Milton H. Erickson

#96. Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#97. I'll take it. I'll take his words like a daring covenant, not knowing yet what's to come: there is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound - no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seeds of a deeper growth.

Ann Voskamp

#98. For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

David Jones

#99. Maybe this is what alone really is - finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

David Levithan

#100. Not knowing why is the hardest part.

Kate Le Vann