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Quotes About Incomprehension

which almost nothing was known in Europe.
~ Laurence Bergreen
After that, Thomas had told her, he felt that Allander drew his inspiration from some source beyond Thomas's comprehension.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell dont understand everything.
~ Gregory Dale Bear
More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.
~ Brie Larson
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.
~ Oscar Wilde
Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.
~ Chelsea Handler
there are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.
~ Chetan Bhagat
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F.
~ Internet meme
Enigszins ontheemd stonden zij bij hen, maar zonder in hen op te gaan, als vetkringen in de bouillon.
~ Harry Mulisch
Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.
~ leary timothy ii
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity," Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of "I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on." Sunny had now said this particular thing three times over the course of her life, and she was beginning to wonder if this was something she was only going to say more and more as she grew older.
~ Lemony Snicket
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,' Sunny said, which was something she had said only once before. It meant something along the lines of 'I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on,' and the first time the youngest Baudelaire had said it, she had just been brought home from the hospital where she was born, and was looking at her siblings as they leaned over her crib to greet her.
~ Lemony Snicket
What's this lunatic talking about!?
~ Dan Brown
To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
obvious they had not heard the
~ William L. Shirer
I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
~ Paul Cezanne
such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.
~ William Styron
Kerry had "unusual" eyes, and she was "strange," and her mother didn't understand her, either.
~ Unknown
But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.
~ Clarice Lispector
She was supersonic in life. Nobody noticed that with her existence she was breaking the sound barrier. For other people she didn't exist.
~ Clarice Lispector
O senhor não compreende, disse ela de novo irritada, que eu não posso pedir? porque preciso de tanto que ninguém pode me dar?
~ Clarice Lispector
Life just is for me, and I don't understand what I'm saying. And so I adore it. ——————
~ Clarice Lispector