Quotes About Incomprehensibility

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Ascension joy—inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Ay, he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.

De ti se saca un pescador lo mismo que del culo de una cabra una trompeta.

She felt herself alone, lost like a stranger in some fantastic country whose language and mode of life were alike incomprehensible, surrounded by enemies in an atmosphere of suspicion and perpetually lurking, unimaginable dangers.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

Het is natuurlijk om dingen te willen snappen, dat is een heel menselijke drang, maar soms valt er - op een bepaalde manier - niets te snappen.

I still find it strange, incomprehensible, unnatural, inhuman, to devote oneself to the happiness of people whom one does not do not know; and I declare that I do not have the honor of being known to the men who govern me.

4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.

To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Muchos hombres están en este hombre. Muchas vidas están en esta vida. Ha tenido muchos nombres. Ha tenido muchas vidas. Todos esos nombres y todas esas vidas no podrían caber en tu pobre cabeza. No podrían caber en mi pobre cabeza.

Que no la conocerá nunca, que no tiene los medios para conocer tanta perversidad. Ni de dar tantos y tantos rodeos para atraparla, nunca lo conseguirá.

God's incomprehensibility cannot be superseded. Human existence, therefore, could be described as grounded in the abyss of mystery, and human relationship with God could be characterized as openness to mystery.

This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else.

Baby talk has tremendous potential, despite its obvious dangers and its near-total incomprehensibility. The only reason you don't embrace it is your abject terror.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes.

There are — how do you say — things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.

Porque en realidad él no le podía contar nada a Traveler. Si empezaba a tirar del ovillo iba a salir una hebra de lana, metros de lana, lanada, lanagnórisis, lanatúrner, lannapurna, lanatomía, lanata, lanatalidad, lanacionalidad, lanaturalidad, la lana hasta lanáusea pero nunca el ovillo.