Quotes About Incomprehensible

There are some people who are untranslatable.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon. The word is Semitic; Bab means gate and El means Cod, so Babel means 'Gate of God.' But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someone who speaks in an incomprehensible tongue. The Bible is full of puns.

I don't even know how to describe it. 'Ragtag' makes it sound like more than it is.

that he lived in a universe whose complexity defied algorithmic simulation.

Some things by their nature cannot be mapped.

My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand.

A thorn ripped a gash that he didn't feel. His body was far away from his mind. He leaned back and stared at a patch of sky through the intertwining limbs. Nothing made sense.

Until it is clearly proved that the Universe was created, we may reasonably suppose that it has endured from all eternity. In a case where two propositions are diametrically opposite, the mind believes that which is less incomprehensible:

And the shadows twisted and churned with incomprehensible shapes. … Flashes of images: an invisible box filled with a broken promise that thrashed with mindless rage.

He was still there when, having seen history now as a place rich in whims and incomprehensible plots for Reasons of State, he learned from Saint-Savin how treacherous was the great machine of the world, plagued by the iniquities of Chance.

Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly;

It was one of those explanations that explained nothing but sounded impressive. Joseph

Nothing is so logical and nothing appears so absurd as the ocean.

Without seeking to comprehend the incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled by Him.

A substance so far beyond their ken that they might have been carrion birds pecking at the eyes of god.

Everyone cried when the creature first spoke to them. No, not cried. They wept. They wept like the cavemen of Lascaux suddenly transported into the Sistine Chapel just in time for a live performance of Phantom of the Opera as sung by Tolkien's elves. Their senses simply were not built for this, weren't meant to come anywhere near this kind of velvet-barreled sensory shotgun, loaded for bear.

God is a great God. Even when there are technological advances, nothing can ever replace Him nor His works. His greatness is beyond what a human mind can comprehend.

God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.