“All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.”

D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence - “All that we know is nothing, we are...” 1

Similar quotes

“We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.”

Goethe
Read more

“The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.”

Saul Bellow
Read more

“Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.”

Sena Jeter Naslund
Read more

“We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?”

Iris Murdoch
Read more

“All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know”

Richard Wilbur
Read more