“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
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Stanley Kubrick 33
American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematogra… 1928–1999Related quotes
“I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want”
“Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.”
"Doing What I Know" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Doing What I Know" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlkC9AFrSNU (song on YouTube)
“I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!”
prescient of the Sex Pistols: "I don't know what I want but I know how to get it."
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
“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
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning, p. 170
“I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long.”
"I want everything" http://home.earthlink.net/~2lulah2/everything.htm in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.
Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.
But these are the people who never get it.
