Quotes About Understanding

We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand before me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs within me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell

no one else has ever taken my side as knowingly and willingly as you, despite everything, despite everything

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.

All the love in the world in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.

Not every child has the endurance and fearlessness to go on searching until it comes to the kindliness that lies beneath the surface. You can only treat a child in the way you yourself are constituted.

All the love in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

Sometimes she would hide her eyes behind her hands, and then no words could get through to her.

Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.

Fragen war die Hauptsache

Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.

Nem todos podem ver a verdade, mas podem sê-la.

The less you torment yourself, the less you'll be tormenting me.

Please, Father, let he future rest, as it deserves. If you wake it ahead of time, the only result is a sleepy-headed present. You shouldn't need your son to remind you of that.

So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself!

Ce n'est pas à l'ampleur du travail que celle du cas se mesure, si vous avez de telles idées vous êtes encore bien loin de comprendre l'administration.

Mit unsern Antworten entwerten wir unsere Fragen.

How can you hold their silence against others, and keep silent yourself?

Wenn Du vor mir stehst und mich ansiehst, was weißt Du von den Schmerzen, die in mir sind und was weiß ich von den Deinen. Und wenn ich mich vor Dir niederwerfen würde und weinen und erzählen, was wüsstest Du von mir mehr als von der Hölle, wenn Dir jemand erzählt, sie ist heiß und fürchterlich. Schon darum sollten wir Menschen voreinander so ehrfürchtig, so nachdenklich, so liebend steh'n wie vor dem Eingang zur Hölle.

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

Language is but a poor translation.

We are like abandoned children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the Gate of Hell.

Zijn hersens kenden fijnere nuances dan moderne hersens kunnen bevatten.

One ought, Milena, to take your face in both hands and look you square in the eye, so that you would see yourself in the eyes of the other person, then you could not even think the kinds of things you wrote there.