27 Quotes About Unknowable

Human beings are unknowable. You can never know a single person fully, not even yourself. Even if you think you know yourself in your safe glass castle, you don’t know yourself in the dirt. Even if you hustle and make in the rough, you have no idea if you would thrive or die in the light of real riches, if your cleverness would outlive your desperation.

I wanted to buy a T-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWABLE.

Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.

Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.

I have battered destructively and in vain upon the mystery of someone else's life and must cease at last.

But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.

Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.

Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.

Why indeed does the hand experience such difficulty in rendering itself? ...It is a tragedy, or perhaps a boon, that the form should never know itself or approach anything resembling itself without warping the parameters of its being. Awareness is thusly obliteration and through reproduction of this intuitive knowing, the self is contaminated, and thereby annihilated.