Quotes About Misunderstanding

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

With Germans, as with women, you never get to the point.

And in that moment I experience a revelation. I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless, the lazy fruit of a misunderstanding, but in that moment I was able to translate what I felt only as: God does not exist.

Über die deutsche Sprache: "Sie halten sich für tief, weil ihre Sprache unklar ist, ihr fehlt die clarté der französischen Sprache, sie sagt nie exakt das, was sie sollte, so dass kein Deutscher jemals weiß, was er sagen wollte – und dann verwechselt er diese Undeutlichkeit mit Tiefe. Es ist mit Deutschen wie mit Frauen, man gelangt bei ihnen nie auf den Grund

William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound.

Nu înÈ›elegeam niciodat? când glumea. Pe la noi, când se glumeÅŸte, se spune ceva, apoi se râde zgomotos, încât toÈ›i s? poat? lua parte la glum?. Guglielmo râdea, în schimb, numai când spunea lucruri serioase ÅŸi r?mânea foarte serios când de fapt glumea.

But when I told him that these lords hoped to find the "truffle" underground, to eat it, he thought I had said they were seeking "der Teufel," the Devil, and he blessed himself devoutly, looking at me in amazement.

Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.

Her ÅŸeyin, hiçbir ÅŸey anlamayan birinin sözcükleri arac?l???yla anla??lmas?n? saÄŸlamak.

Gli Adepti del Velame ricordano qualcuno che sentendosi dire: Signore, lei è un ladro, mi creda!, reagisca con: Che cosa intende con 'mi creda'? Vuol forse insinuare che io sia diffidente?

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label.

Alas, poor James is dead. / We see his face no more. / For what he thought was H2O / Was H2SO4

No," I said. "You're not a Yankee imperialist?" she prodded. "Certainly not," I told her. "I come from Ireland." "Holland," she said, frowning. "No

strange young girl,' he said in a loud voice that I knew was meant

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke. Les Miserables

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Se per caso capiva che la sua infermità si tradisse per qualche apostrofe incoerente o per qualche domanda inintelligibile, la cosa passava per profondità presso alcuni, per imbecillità presso altri. In ambedue i casi l'onore della magistratura era salvo, perchè un giudice può essere benissimo profondo o imbecille a suo piacere, ma sordo no.

Cuando lo vieron ganar dinero, dijeron: es un comerciante. Cuando lo vieron repartir el dinero, dijeron: es un ambicioso. Cuando lo vieron rechazar los honores, dijeron: es un aventurero. Cuando lo vieron rechazar el trato social, dijeron: es un borrico.

Tous étant sourds pour lui, il n'avait pas été sourd pour elle

For years, she'd mistaken habit and affection for true love. She had assumed that the love she gave her husband was a reflection of the love he felt for her, and now, because of her blindness, she was alone.

She wasn't quite sure how it had happened, or when, but distance seemed to be spreading between them like spilled ink, staining everything.

Leni got to her feet, stared at him. I didn't mean to do that. The same words she'd heard spoken by her dad.

They were always doing that to each other, misinterpreting, imagining the worst. No wonder every conversation bruised one or the other.