
“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
Letter to Madame Mohl (13 December 1861)
The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913)
Context: People often say to me, You don't know what a wife and mother feels. No, I say, I don't and I'm very glad I don't. And they don't know what I feel. … I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from his own experience.
“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow”
"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
7 Questions with Joe Strummer (15 August 2001)
Said to Honey magazine, as claimed in Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, p. 178.
Attributed
Response to question on his feelings about the atomic bombings, while visiting Japan in 1960.
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)
“I don't know how everyone else feels, but I'm exhausted.”
Quoted September 05, 1995, on playing in his 2,130th consecutive game equaling Lou Gehrig's record; The Baseball Timeline, Burt Solomon, p. 1018