Unknowning Quotes & Sayings

Too many writers cannot come to terms with the ways in which the past, like the future, is dark. There is so much we don't know, and to write truthfully about a life, your own or your mother's, or a celebrated figure's, an event, a crisis, another culture is to engage repeatedly with those patches of darkness, those nights of history, those places of unknowning. They tell us that there are limits to knowledge, that there are essential mysteries, starting with the notion that we know just what someone thought or felt in the absence of exact information. — Rebecca Solnit

One time, that true brass thimble. — Sue Monk Kidd

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. — Jane Austen

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Rejection is just a test to see how much you really want something. — Kristy Brown

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets
The moon sets
But they are not gone. — Rumi

Typical Xochi, leaving out important, death-related details. — J.T. Bock