I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

- John Knowles

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

- John Knowles

We are all born equally far from the sun.

- John Knowles

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

- John Knowles

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the hu…

- John Knowles

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

- John Knowles

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

- John Knowles

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

- John Knowles

Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in…

- John Knowles