Quotes About Incomprehension

At on level I am happy--awed--that there are people...that have defected from the state...but then there's part of me that thinks... How could you ever have believed in it? Is is possible to have a moral state? A moral superpower? I can't understand those people that believe the excesses are just aberrations ... Of course I understand it intellectually, but ... part of me wants to retain that incomprehension ...

Their attitude seemed to result from incomprehension rather than cruelty, but as Tolstoy would have said, what's the difference in the end?

There was nothing she could say to them--nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter.

It was to be in essence crueler than revenge: it would have meant the destruction of that which we cannot comprehend.

A bosszúnál is barbárabb lépés lett volna: elpusztítani valamit, mert nem tudjuk megérteni.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

They can trigger me. But they'll never figure me out.

Elvis may have been my first hero, but you couldn't relate to him.

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

The world is a deaf machine

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

nature has never found human incomprehension a reason for changing her methods.

Hidden within the heart of the great rose of music, he could forget time and place, forget the sting of his cut lip and the white man who'd given it to him, who had the right by law to give it to him; forget the whole of this past half year. For as long as he could remember, music had been his refuge, when grief and pity and rage and incomprehension of the whole of the bleeding world overwhelmed him: It had been a retreat, like the gentle hypnotism of the Rosary.

El hecho de que no se comprenda o se explique una cosa no termina con ella. Nada sé de las estrellas, pero las veo en el cielo, son la belleza de la noche.

más que los golpes, mas que la indiferencia, fue aquella sensación de no poder comprender.

I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice.

blind and naked as an unearthed mole, uncomprehending.

that the bulk of his scholarship was out of my grasp); as

Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Niemand weiß, wie oft er im Jahr, in der Woche oder gar in der Stunde Zeuge von Vorgängen wird, die eine Vorbereitung, ein Nachspiel oder einen kleinen Ausschnitt eines Ereignisses darstellen, das schrecklich, vielleicht sogar tödlich enden mag, dessen Einzelteile aber für sich genommen nicht das Geringste zu sagen haben. Unsere Unfähigkeit, solche Fragmente zu deuten, schützt uns vor der Schuld.

Mi tristeza era perezosa, pero vivía en mi imaginación con orgullo de poeta incomprendido.

There's a whole world out there, even if I don't understand it.

Tommy had never been successful at explaining himself to adults because of their calamitous heedlessness

Worse Even than your maddening Song, your silence.