Ian Mcewan Quotes

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

How did they know?.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

The more I see, the less I know.

I'm not sure I know what "normal" is.

I know too much and not enough

When someone is close by, you just know it.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the difference between dreaming and waking.’ You know what I’m afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won’t know.

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream