Quotes About Incomprehensible

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

Awkwardness is a warning against complacency. A connection with the incomprehensible achieved only through immersion in contemporary life, a moment of awareness of the gap between your perception and understanding. It is the urbane corollary to the antique sublime: the social vista that slaps you in the face with the breadth of what you still don't understand.

Il pensiero che suo padre potesse essere in collera e che tuttavia Achille continuasse a fare ciò che voleva, era una cosa incomprensibile per me, a stento immaginabile. Sentirglielo dire era come una droga. Non ne avevo mai abbastanza.

I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.

For me, the lessons were irrefutable. Iran illustrated beyond any doubt that the United States was a nation laboring to deny the truth of its role in the world. It seemed incomprehensible that we could have been so misinformed about the shah and the tide of hatred that had surged against him.

God's ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.

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

As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible.

He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But that didn't seem the same as being mad.

Unutterable are the things we fear, but soon our fears will be exceeded

Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans!

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

It is beyond my apprehension.

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is "How should I know?"… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

The father is at rest in will. Nothing happens without the father's pleasure, nothing happens without the father's will. And his will is incomprehensible. His will is his footprint, but none can understand him, nor does he exist so that they might study him32 in order to grasp him.

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon...

On eût dit qu'en parlant un langage dont le caractère enfantin ne permettait pas qu'on le tînt pour un langage, elle donnait aux mots insignifiants l'aspect de mots incompréhensibles. Elle ne disait rien, mais ne rien dire était pour elle un mode d'expression trop significatif, au-dessous duquel elle réussissait à moins dire encore.

May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and do we know how much we add to ourselves when we awake something of the incomprehensible that slumbers in every corner? Here you have awakened love which will not fall asleep again. … nothing can ever separate two souls which, for an instant, 'have been good together.

The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn't understand at all.