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Quotes About Incomprehensible

Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.
~ Philip Pullman
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
~ Philip Roth
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the manias of lust.
~ Philip Roth
For the contemporarily tragic, all airports are the same: orange-faced blondes, slit-skirted stewardesses with luggage they can pull, college boys with Nazi cheekbones, the inevitable green vest of the airport-lounge bartender. Black-haired women in yellow. P.A. announcers just one mouth-marble short of incomprehensible.
~ David Foster Wallace
Infinity is against us, I told him. There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.
~ David Levithan
We are not supposed to comprehend something like this
~ David Levithan
I have $211 and it doesn't make any sense.
~ David Sedaris
Entiende lo incomprensible y ámalo.
~ Unknown
The real, by which I mean God, continues to remain unfathomable.
~ Czes?aw Mi?osz
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.
~ D.H. Lawrence
A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.
~ Anthony Marra
There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.
~ Loren Eiseley
BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.
~ Jim Butcher
God's ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.
~ Jim George
No sabem res de nosaltres mateixos; estem plens per dins de coses que ni sospitem. És per a nosaltres mateixos que som més incomprensibles.
~ Unknown
Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup
~ Jodi Picoult
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~ Unknown
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
~ Antonin Artaud
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
~ Vance Packard
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that He should not exist; that the soul should be joined to the body, and that we should have no soul; that the world should be created, and that it should not be created . . . BLAISE PASCAL1
~ Philip Yancey
As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20
~ Philip Yancey
Males are the most incomprehensible species.
~ Rachel Cohn
The ineffable would not be ineffable if it could be described.
~ Dean Koontz
How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it.
~ Denis Johnson