
“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
"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 do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
“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.
“I hold up what I know with what I do not know.”
Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
Voces (1943)
“I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.”
Source: Then We Came to the End
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I know what I'm doing. I know I'm shocking you.”