Quotes About Understanding

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.

How had he read from my mind, my desire for Amadeo?

I want you, the great breaker of rules, to forgive that I have broken yours.

Marius needed to speak in a long flow of words as much as Thorne needed to hear words. Marius and Thorne had come upon each other in the proper moment.

What does it mean to write? David, you'll never see this question repeated, because with each page I understand more and more-I see the patterns that have before eluded me, and driven me to dream rather than to live.

Probablemente. Quizá lo que trato de decirte es que si vamos a estar juntos durante mucho tiempo, deberás acostumbrarte a mí. Tendrás que habituarte a la evasión. Así es como yo soy.

The impossibility of truth being served by generalities, and the impossibility of learning proceeding without them.

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

to be showered on you again simply because now you know their worth.

The mysterious he was no mystery whatsoever to me.

As much as I hated him, with him we were Ã¢â'¬Â¦ complete.' She looked at me, her eyelids quivering, as if the slight rise in her voice had disturbed her even as it had disturbed me. " Ã¢â'¬ËœNo, only you were complete …' I said to her. 'Because there were two of us, one on either side of you, from the beginning.' "I thought I saw her smile then, but I was not certain.

Love we need, and love can make us forget and forgive the savagery, as perhaps nothing else can.

It was the man of memory and the man of visions that I knew as soon as I studied him.

What could thesee words mean to her? They must have sounded like old poetry. How could I expect her to grasp what I had said.

So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." "An absence of need for illusions," he said.

Todos llevamos en nuestro corazón la semilla del odio hacia lo que es distinto. No tienen que enseñarnos esos sentimientos. Lo que tenemos que aprender es a no sucumbir a ellos. Los llevamos en la sangre; pero en nuestras mentes anida la caridad y el amor para superarlos.

Maybe because I'd read the chronicles so avidly, I felt Lestat was as close to me as I was to him.

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.

Maharet put her arm around Mekare's waist, and Mekare, come from brutal isolation I know not where, merely stared into space as though she knew some quiet peace but no more than that.

All I taught him of art, of history, of beauty, of civilization-all this was meaningless to him.

You are a creature like me, I wanted to say. We are monsters and we can put our arms around each other. What are they, my guests, but tender things.

Why was I so jealous? Why did this knowledge sting me so much?

Fájdalom. Kimondhatatlan fájdalom. Nem érdekelt, ki mindenki figyel most ebbÅ'l vagy egy másik világból, ki próbál osztozni velem a pillanatban, és ki az, aki pusztán remegve nézi, amint én átélem. Nem számított. Amikor efféle fájdalom ér minket, mindig egyedül vagyunk.

Only in complexity do we find answers. Through complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it's the only way. Simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. It always has.