Quotes About Understanding

If I should try to put it into words, I mean how I did see her, it would be incomprehensible, for the simple reason that I find that I never did have a really clear idea of her at any time. I had an image of her, but that is not the same thing. An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. I had gathered, of course, a good deal from you, and later, after she went away, from others, but this only strengthened my confusion. The more we learn of a person, the less we know.

I do not wish to listen to people denouncing their parents.

When I hear about someone else's pain, I feel pain too. i feel pain for everything - for people and animals.

Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth [Symphony] was about.

A ?ovek valjda traje dok traje u drugome.

Dobro znate da ljudi misle r?avo samo o onome koga odli?no poznaju.

Kaži mi, ali savesno. Istinu. Ho?eš li, to jest, možeš li ti meni biti prijatelj bez obzira na ideje koje zastupam. Uvek, do kraja.

Od spoljnih nepogoda ljudskog života, najužasnija je nepogoda - Vreme. U radosti ima brzinu svetlosti, u patnji staje. Malo ga imamo za razumevanje sveta u kome smo bez krivice, a osu?eni da ga s mukom shvatamo, svaku istinu preplatimo, najbitnije ne saznamo. No?as se, valjda, kona?no osveš?ujem: ?ovek nema vremena sebe da shvati.

Vi ste vernik? - Jesam. A koji je Vaš Bog? - Budu?nost. Budu?nost? Ne razumem. - Nijedan se Bog ne može razumeti.

Jednom sam, u o?ajanju, morao da pitam mamu: "Zašto ljudi ne vole one koji im nikakvo zlo ne ?ine?" - "Zato sine, što ti dobri ne li?e na njih ostale", odgovorila mi mama, bez premišljanja. "Pa, ipak, mama, ne?e biti da su svi ljudi zli.", rekao sam prili?no ube?eno. Mama je ?utala i ja sam to ?utanje zapamtio. Oca nisam o tome pitao jer sam se plašio njegovog odgovora.

Ljubav se dokazuje praštanjem i ?ekanjem.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

An angry daughter...is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

When I discovered that there was actually a thing called a push-up bra, that, to me, had to be equal of the day Einstein figured out that relativity thing.

There are many other species, and humans don't understand that. But we like the humans. They are a part of us, and they discover that when they leave their body. If they knew this they would behave differently. They're very lovely. They mean well, and they all have this love in their heart, and we just want them to love from their heart. And if they love from their heart, they won't create these things that occur.

His empathy ties him to the root of others' emotions. It was part of what he chose to have.

And then you try to remember who you are, but sometimes it's not so easy to remember.

There cannot be the understanding of that which is given until there is experienced that which is taken.