Charles de Lint Quotes

Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.