Quotes About Understanding

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

It doesn't do any good to fight with Sonny. Sonny just moves back, inside himself, where he can't be reached.

Love him,' said Jacques, with vehemence, 'love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

It was better not to judge the man who had gone down under an impossible burden. It was better to remember: Thou knowest this man's fall, but thou knowest not his wrassling.

Men - not just babies like you, but old men, too - they always need to have a woman tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles.

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back; but I think that the past is all that makes the present coherent, and further, that the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

And he knew again that she was not saying everything she meant; in a kind of secret language she was telling him today something that he must remember and understand tomorrow. He watched her face, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance.

A man is not a man until he's able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from that of others.

If we understood ourselves better we would damage ourselves less.

To encounter oneself is to encounter the other: and this is love. If I know that my soul trembles, I know that yours does, too: and if I can respect this, both of us can live. Neither of us, truly, can live without the other: a statement which would not sound so banal if one were not so endlessly compelled to repeat it, and act on that belief.

It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.

Don't think I don't know you love me. You believe we going to make it?

She did not know why he so adored things that were so long dead; what sustenance they gave him, what secrets he hoped to wrest from them. But she understood, at least, that they did give him a kind of bitter nourishment, and that the secrets they held for him were a matter of his life and death. It frightened her because she felt that he was reaching for the moon and that he would, therefore, be dashed down against the rocks; but she did not say any of this.

San?r?m iki insan?n hem gülmesi hem seviÅŸmesi, güldükleri için seviÅŸmeleri ve seviÅŸtikleri için gülmeleri pek az rastlan?r bir durumdur. Sevmek ve gülmek hep ayn? yerden gelir de, o noktaya pek çok kiÅŸi eriÅŸemez.

Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

the righteous must be able to locate the damned.

I am not trying to be méchant when I talk about women. I respect women—very much—for their inside life, which is not like the life of a man.

It's not really a mystery except it's always a mystery about people.

Giovanni looked at me. And this look made me feel that no one in my life had ever looked at me directly before.

Her long narrow eyes darkened with whatever it was they were beginning to see.

Women don't see men the way men want to be seen. They see all the tender places, all the places where blood could flow.