Quotes About Understanding

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again

In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if's of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him.

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

The second thing I believe is that all of us would be human again if we could.

or even on the same evening? Five nights ago the Voice had said, "You of all understand me. You of all understand power

Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.

He stood in the doorway, holding the back of his own arms. And I knew what I felt. It was a monstrous intimacy with another being, an intimacy that made even the rapt moments of life seem dim and under control. Never, never in all my existance had I been threateened with an intimacy quite like this.

that we are the sum of all we've seen and all we've appreciated and understood. You were the sum of sunshine on marble floors filled with pictures of divine beings who laughed and loved and drank the fruit of the vine as surely as you were the sum of the poets and historians and philosophers you'd read.

Remember me not for my weakness, for my sins, or for my poor judgment. But that I loved you.

When a being reveals his pain in such a torrent, you are bound to respect the whole of the tragedy.

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that women would make and what women have to teach men. And only when men can be taught, will they be allowed to run free among women again!

She'd always liked to listen to people, especially when they talked so much that she didn't have to say anything much herself.

What mattered now was only that I understood what it meant to cherish others and to cherish life itself. I

You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with language.

I adore my Queen and I am here with you. I love you both. I yield to that entirely as well as everything else and even the knowledge I may be punished. And when I am punished, I shall dread it, and suffer it and understand it and accept it. when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering

Grief, she thought. It's a strange and a misunderstood emotion.

Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.

We all need love, don't we, even the worst killers, the worst animals! We all need love.

Had you asked me then, I would have told you it was aesthetic, that I wished to understand death in stages. That the death of an animal yielded such pleasure and experience to me that I had only begun to understand it, and wished to save the experience of human death for my mature understanding. But it was moral. Because all aesthetic decisions are moral, really.

Flavius has never put a single question to us as to what we were. In his mind, I found, devotion and acceptance far superseded curiosity or fear.

And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.

Yes, I see.' 'Beware.' 'Of thinking I understand?' 'Precisely [...]

And my worst problem was laughter. I would go into fits of laughter and I couldn't stop. Anything could set me off. The sheer madness of my own position might set me off. This can still happen to me fairly easily. No loss, no pain, no deepening understanding of my predicament changes it. Something strikes me as funny. I begin to laugh and I can't stop.

Telling people-did it ever make things better?