Quotes About Understanding

Although we cannot number the infinite, nevertheless it can be comprehended by Him whose knowledge has no bounds.

Behold, the Queen of the Damned," said his Maker twin as she presented to the others her long-lost sister. Thorne understood her.

You long to be seen and approached and understood and to get into mischief, to stir everything up and see if it won't boil over and if God won't come down and grab you by the hair. Well, there is no God. You might as well be God.

Whatever you thought of the world, you should have let them have their time with it. It was their world and their time.

This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millenium of nights will be yours to see as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars as if you were Prometheus, an endless illumination by which to understand all things.

You don't see the evidence of youth in me; it is something so far afield of the promises of youth that I've only begun to understand its agonies.

One thing we can give each other is our history.

Weary of the Mind Gift and its random messages, he wanted to hear spoken words.

Perhaps the horror of my own life was that, no matter what I did or where I went, I always understood.

Rompió a llorar, cosa que yo nunca le había visto hacer. Y yo gocé de aquel instante pese a todo el dolor que contenía. Me dio vergüenza sentir aquello, pero no la solté. La mantuve abrazada con fuerza y tal vez la besé por todas las veces que no me había permitido hacerlo. Por un instante, parecíamos dos partes de una misma cosa.

He looked at me, and his mouth worked the miracle of the ordinary smile.

Lascia che sia la carne a insegnare alla mente

You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming to sack its riches.

I love you," he said. "Why?" "Because you are beautiful to me. Because you can see me. Because you are all the things in a human being which I myself desire. Because you are human and warm and soft. And I know you, and have known the others before you.

Você sabe qual é minha opinião sobre o choro? Acho que algumas pessoas precisam aprender a chorar. No entanto, uma vez que se tenha aprendido, uma vez que se saiba chorar de verdade, não há nada que chegue a seus pés. Sinto pena de quem não conhece o segredo. É como assobiar ou cantar.

What is it in me that will not acknowledge my admiration for her mind, her beauty, her exquisite understanding of all things?

grand and magnificent assurances that Beethoven tried to make, it seemed, to all of us, that everything would someday be understood and this life was worth it.

Ashlar: I have learned to live with a profound loneliness. I forget about it for years and years. Then it surfaces, the desire to be placed in context by somebody else. The desire to be known, understood, evaluated morally by a sophisticated mind. That was always the lure of the Talamasca, from the beginning, that I could go there and confide in my scholars, that we would talk late into the night.(...) Human beings very seldom survive without that kind of exchange, communication. Love.

The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him. When

You've learned to express yourselves too well for anything to remain veiled or mysterious.

Don't fight with Mael. What could be the outcome, but two wounded creatures hating each other even more than now?

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it

and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.

went on, sweet, and demure, and winding to a compassionate finale. I know your pain. I know. But madness isn't for you. It never was. You're the one who never goes mad.