Quotes About Understanding

Part of love is preparing for death. You feel confirmed in your love when she dies. You got it right. This is part of it all.

Cast out the beam from your own eye before you seek to extract the mote from the eye of another.

Vivimos en el tiempo —nos contiene y nos moldea—, pero nunca he creído comprenderlo muy bien.

Más adelante, en la vida, confías en descansar un poco, ¿no? Crees que te lo mereces. Yo sí, en todo caso. Pero entonces empiezas a comprender que a la vida no le incumbe recompensar el mérito.

Love means never having to say you're sorry (on the contrary, it frequently means doing just precisely that). Then there were all those love lines from all those love songs, with the swooning delusions of lyricist, singer, band.

An English silence—one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties—prevailed.

Istorija yra žinomyb?, atsirandanti atminties netobulum? ir dokument? netikslum? susikirtimo taške.

She knew me better than anyone else in the world. And still wanted to have lunch with me. And let me go on and on about myself.

This was one of the differences between the three of us and our new friend, We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.

We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.

You realise how sympathy and antagonism can coexist.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Tai, kÄ… galiausiai prisimeni, ne visada yra tas pats, kÄ… patyrei

Knygos tvirtina: ji padar? tai tod?l ir tod?l. Gyvenimas tvirtina: ji padar? tai. Tik knygose viskas paaiškinama, o gyvenime ni?niekas. Nesistebiu, kad kai kurie žmon?s teikia pirmenyb? knygoms. Knygos ?prasmina gyvenim?. Visa b?da, kad jos ?prasmina kit? žmoni? gyvenim?, bet ne tav?j?.

I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed to be an organic combination of her mind and personality, whereas mine struck me as functionally separate, straining to describe a character I hoped to grow into.

Due altre cose ha detto nel corso degli anni: che certe donne non sono affatto misteriose ma vengono rese tali dall'incapacità degli uomini di capirle. da Il senso di una fine

The more you learn, the less you fear. 'Learn' not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

This was another skill women were meant to learn: when a man's story had come to an end. Mostly, it wasn't a problem, as the end was thumpingly obvious; or else the narrator started snorting with laughter in advance, which was always a pretty good clue. Martha had long ago decided only to laugh at things she found funny. It seemed a normal sort of rule; but most men found it rebuking.

We tend to slot any new relationship we come across into a preexisting category. We see what is general or common about it; whereas the participants see—feel—only what is individual and particular to them.

Jenže vzpomínky, které nám nakonec z?stanou, se pÃ…â"¢ece pokaždé neshodují s tím, co jsme vidÄ›li na vlastní o?i.

Not a touch, not a kiss, not a word, let alone a scheme or a plan. But there was already, just in the way we sat in the car, before she said a few laughing words and then walked off up her driveway, a complicity between us. Not, I insist, as yet a complicity to do anything. Just a complicity which made me a little more me, and her a little more her.

Yes, she is older; yes, she knows more about the world. But in terms of—what shall I call it? the age of her spirit, perhaps—we aren't that far apart.

I often wondered about Nigel, and why things seemed so much clearer to him. Was it more, or less, intelligence; more, or less, imagination; or simply a more stable personality?

that there were some women who aren't at all mysterious, but are only made so by men's inability to understand them.