Quotes About Incomprehension

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

Peut-être d'ailleurs aime-t-il entendre cette voix parce que précisément il ne peut comprendre les mots qu'elle prononce, et qu'ainsi il est sûr qu'ils ne le blesseront pas, qu'ils ne lui diront pas ce qu'il ne veut pas entendre, qu'ils ne poseront pas de questions douloureuses, qu'ils ne viendront pas dans le passé pour l'exhumer avec violence et le jeter à ses pieds comme une dépouille sanglante.

I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.

It's okay if you can't make sense of that. I've tried and tried, but I can't grasp it, either. The most vital things we hide even from ourselves.

When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

Anya: I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's- There's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And-and Xander's crying and not talking, and-and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.

I see, said Arthur Dent. He didn't.

People stood at the edge, gaping foolishly, because they didn't believe it. The chasm was too big to understand.

A veces me he sentido como un puzzle en manos de un imbécil

You still don't get it. You never did, and you never will. So stop even trying.

I've never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...

me he empavorecido, me he engrisado, me he atardecido, mi lengua no sabe.

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

It is almost as if the Greeks, at a time when they were about to disappear from history, wished to avenge themselves for their own incomprehension by imposing on a whole section of mankind the limitations of their own mental horizons.

His face clouds over with incomprehension. You would know. You'd know, if you saw a pike.

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

Nope. No idea.

Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.