“Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.” LeftGoneKnowingResponsibleShameBurdenNever Quit Book:The Goldfinch Source: The Goldfinch
“The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.” MenMindHumansHas BeensMadeAgeUniverseNextLeftHuman BeingsKnowingMembersAchievementFellowsBlessedHumbleBrilliantPeace Of MindCompellingPreciseOutlookGrandeurDeficiencyVeneration Author:Alain de Botton
“This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.” WritingMayUseHandsLeftKnowingAccountsInferiorsLeft HandKnowing Myself Author:John Milton
“We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.” WorldNightLeftGrowsParentMarriageGrowing UpKnowingClearGrowingShareShipsWho We AreNot Knowing Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“LeBron doesn't have any weaknesses, or he doesn't have a glaring weakness. So you've got to pick up on the smaller things to try to make him uncomfortable. Like knowing which side he likes to shoot threes off the dribble, which side he likes to drive. One side he'll drive left more often, and the other side he'll drive right more often.” TryingLeftSidesKnowingPicksWeaknessLikesUncomfortableChampionshipNba ChampionshipsDribble Author:Andre Iguodala
“2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.” ThinkingMadeSeemsLeftBehindsSituationKnowingFateDyingMaterialsShotsDiedMade ItObsessedTiesSignificanceThreateningLeft Behind Author:Curtis Jackson
“It's funny, people were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie, and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered, knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsEndsLeftFeltStuffKnowingMonthsAskingTwilightBewilderedFunny People Author:Robert Pattinson
“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.” TryingSaidFeelingsArtistLeftKnowingColorSweetTasteLongingPainfulFrustrationCaptureFragileGestures Author:Alan Alda