Quotes About Understanding

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.

We understand more than we know.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

Tell me where it hurts, she'd say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where. But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

the difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn.

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I would never blame a human creature for feeling lonely.

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.