Quotes About Incomprehensible

it's impossible to understand how my breast could expand and contract to breathe this air, it's impossible to understand how you can be far away.

Parables really set out to say merely that the incomprehensible is incomprehensible, and we know that already. We lose in parable the moment we pin things down to an accessible meaning.

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

Surely you don't think that the world is a rule for measuring the universe. The are entities we never dream of floating under our very noses.

That's the one thing we never seem to get, how unpackable everything is.

It's not the first incomprehensible thing that's happened in our lifetime," his wife reminded him.

Je sens en moi, confusément, des aspirations extraordinaires, des sortes de lames de fond, des mouvements, des agitations incompréhensibles, et que je ne veux pas chercher à comprendre, que je ne veux même pas observer, par crainte de les empêcher de se produire.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

El ocaso del día era como el fin del mundo, con esos atardeceres color violeta que hay en Bogotá, ciudad que es fea pero que tiene un cielo muy lindo, algo incomprensible

Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

Lo digno no se puede describir.

Een engel! - Jaja, dat zegt iedereen over de zijne, is het niet? Maar ik ben nu eenmaal niet in staat je te vertellen hoe volmaakt ze is, waarom ze volmaakt is; laat het je genoeg zijn dat ze op al mijn gedachten beslag heeft gelegd.

We have no word for this darkness. It is not night and it is not ignorance. From time to time we all cross this darkness, seeing everything: so much everything that we can distinguish nothing. You know it, Marisa, better than I. It's the interior from which everything came.

And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and

But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.

For we not only discover God by admiring His incomprehensible essence, a thing which still lies hid in the hope of the promise, but we see Him through the greatness of His creation, and the consideration of His justice, and the aid of His daily providence:

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was preposterous and true and totally unacceptable.

O motivo havia sido um gesto sem sentido, sobre o qual, justamente por ser sem sentido, decidi não contar a ninguém. As coisas mais difíceis de falar são as que nós mesmos não conseguimos entender.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

All true language is incomprehensible, Like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Verden var et jævelig sted, det hendte så mye som jeg verken kunne begripe eller forstå.