logo

Quotes About Incomprehensible

There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.
~ Joseph Conrad
En nuestro alrededor anda sigilosamente un cupido rebelde y travieso que espera el momento oportuno para flechar la parte oculta del corazón, ese lado inconsciente e incomprensible que no conocemos y pocas veces utilizamos
~ Walter Riso
For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
For he – and this is truly what Central European writers do – drags around a terrible burden of linguistic and musical melodies; he hauls a piano and a dead horse behind him, along with everything that has been played on that piano and everything that the horse once bore into battle and to defeat – marble statues and bronze bearded busts, pictures in baroque frames, words and melodies that nobody can understand outside that language.
~ Danilo Kiš
The Constitution of the United States of America, Article V, Section 1: There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
~ Dave Barry
I mean, it's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of a day, it's more like a two-and-to-make... fish... or something... You know? Not even close to making sense.
~ Dave McKean
Bueno, es medio estúpido mandarme a un lugar donde nada tiene sentido y no contestar mis preguntas.
~ James Dashner
far-off, abstract, intangible God
~ James Martin
We can love only what cannot be fully recognized, what cannot yield its mysteries to thought
~ James P. Carse
Manche Dinge sind so schrecklich, dass man sie nicht sogleich begreifen kann.
~ Donna Tartt
Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity – distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
~ Douglas Adams
I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
~ Douglas Adams
Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
~ Douglas Adams
Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen …
~ Douglas Adams
The barman reeled for a moment, hit by a shocking, incomprehensible sense of distance. He didn't know what it meant, but he looked at Ford Prefect with a new sense of respect, almost awe.
~ Douglas Adams
Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The
~ Douglas Adams
OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!
~ Douglas Adams
Quem olha para o céu à noite está olhando para o infinito; a distância é incompreensível, e portanto sem significado.
~ Douglas Adams
Coisas terríveis, incompreensíveis – gritou –, coisas que deixariam qualquer homem louco! Olhou para eles assustado. – Ou, no meu caso – acrescentou –, meio louco. Sou um jornalista.
~ Douglas Adams
O universo, como já foi dito anteriormente, é um lugar desconcertantemente grande, um fato que, para continuar levando uma vida tranquila, a maioria das pessoas tende a ignorar.
~ Douglas Adams
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
~ Douglas Adams
You can not stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.
~ Douglas Preston
Fear, Mr. Burton, is an incalculable thing.
~ Agatha Christie
As the teacher gave his lessons, he would look over at me from time to time and say, "Akira probably won't understand this, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â or "This will be impossible for Akira to solve, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â The other children would turn to look at me and snicker when he did this, but no matter how bitter I felt, he was right. Whatever the subject, it was completely incomprehensible to me. I was pained and saddened.
~ Akira Kurosawa