Quotes About Understanding

Toutes choses sont dites déjà ; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Il faut de l'esprit pour bien parler, de l'intelligence suffit pour bien écouter.

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Moins le blanc est intelligent, plus le noir lui paraît bête.

Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; déplorable ! Ils ne s'aperçoivent plus de la médiocrité, sitôt que ce n'est plus une médiocrité de fortune.

Leo demasiado; todo eso fermenta.

Whether they will or no, a link is created between two creatures who experience a common emotion.

One must allow other people to be right,' he used to say when he was insulted, 'it consoles them for not being anything else.' (The Immoralist - pp 91)

You see, the great weakness of the symbolist school is that it brought nothing but an æsthetic with it; all the other great schools brought with them, besides their new styles, a new ethic, new tables, a new way of looking at things, of understanding love, of behaving oneself in life. As for the symbolist, it's perfectly simple; he didn't behave himself at all in life; he didn't attempt to understand it; he denied its existence; he turned his back on it.

I have often noticed with married couples how intolerably irritating the slightest protuberance of character in the one may be to the other, because in the course of life in common it continually rubs up against the same place. And if the rub is reciprocal, married life is nothing but a hell.

Ces scènes où l'un offre plus de son cÅ"ur qu'on ne lui demande, sont toujours pénibles

Truth can be told to all; the idea, in proportion to the strength of each.

Take upon oneself as much humanity as possible. There is the correct formula.

When one talks it's in order to be understood.

I think he must have made my mother very unhappy, and yet he loved her—that is, if he ever really loved anyone.

J'écoute si bien les oiseaux; je crois que je comprends tout ce qu'ils disent.

Lo propio de un alma cristiana es imaginar batallas en uno; al cabo de poco tiempo no comprende uno muy bien por qué… Pues, en definitiva, sea quien sea el vencido, es siempre una parte de uno mismo; y es ésa una usura inútil. Me he pasado la juventud oponiendo en mí dos partes de mí, que quizá no pedían otra cosa que entenderse. Por amor al combate, imaginaba luchas y dividía mi naturaleza.

Je voudrais mourir à présent, vite, avant d'avoir compris de nouveau que je suis seule.

Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is that which remains unexpressed.

Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola di non aver altro.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

It's been six months, Nancy.' 'What's your hurry? It took me a year to get used to living with Carl. I mean, what do men do anyway? They work, eat, drink, and play games. Sex for them is in the sports and recreation category. You can't live with a man and not be lonely.' 'You think so?' 'Absolutely. Besides, once you have kids, it all changes anyway. Everything seems to make sense then.