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Quotes About Incomprehension

Montroy stared at her as if she were speaking in a language he couldn't quite understand. "You asked to stay here? With him? But why?" "I'm afraid I can't explain it." Montroy raked a hand through his hair, thinking that, if he lived to be a hundred, he would never understand the workings of the female mind. "Well, I wish you'd try!
~ Amanda Ashley
Cricket often leaves you scratching your head.
~ James Anderson
We never quite understand and we can't quite explain.
~ Richard Hugo
But of course no one was listening. No one understands us, not ever.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us...
~ Derek Landy
Mail finally arrived for some troops—many had received nothing for two months or more—and Christmas packages often implied a certain homefront incomprehension of life in the combat zone: bathrobes, slippers, and phonograph records were particularly popular.
~ Rick Atkinson
As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in his thinking she could not comprehend.
~ Robert Ludlum
But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood.
~ Lacey Alexander
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
~ Pablo Picasso
I never could make out what those damned dots meant.
~ Lord Randolph Churchill
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
~ Peter Medawar
Words, Words, Words—they do not reach me.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
He can't hear you. His ears are full of shit
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it.
~ Roberto Bolano
Thus would it be with a man if, while remaining within the bounds of human reason, experience and feelings, he were suddenly to see God Himself. He would see Him but would not understand, even though he knew that it was God, and he would tremble with inconceivable sufferings of incomprehension.
~ Leonid Andreyev
Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And
~ Lewis Carroll
We protect our minds by an elaborate system of abstractions, ambiguities, metaphors and similes from the reality we do not wish to know too clearly; we lie to ourselves, in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes
~ Aldous Huxley
I don't understand anything,' she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.
~ Aldous Huxley
Ah, quel che non intendo, è questo che è capace di ammazzarmi...
~ João Guimarães Rosa
It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.
~ Maria Callas
People often hate what they cannot understand.
~ Amanda Elyot
I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
~ E. Lockhart
Gördüm sevenleri... Ba?lar?na gelecekleri görmeyeceklerini gördüm... A??k olu?lar?n? gördüm... Anlamad?m... Anlayamad?m... Sonra sen ç?kageldin... Sonra sen... A??klar? gördüm... Acemilerdi... Ben dedim "Olamam böyle"... Sonra sen ç?kageldin... Sonra sen...
~ Ece Temelkuran
Jared couldn't follow the twists of this and didn't really care. "Do you mind if I hit the shower?
~ Eden Robinson