Quotes About Understanding

You couldnt have understood what they were talking about. What I understood was that I had to learn what it was that they were talking about.

having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

The world is full of people who should have been more willing to weep.

Em qualquer acontecimento a história de todos não é a história de cada um nem tampouco a soma dessas histórias e ninguém aqui no final pode entender o motivo de sua presença pois ninguém tem como saber no que o acontecimento consiste. Na verdade, se a pessoa soubesse é bem provável que se ausentasse e como você pode ver isso não pode ser parte do plano se é que algum plano há.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.

Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

Bücher müssen schwer sein, weil die ganze Welt in ihnen steckt.

Manche Bücher müssen gekostet werden, manche verschlingt man, nur einige wenige kaut man und verdaut sie ganz.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

Bücher liebten jeden, der sie aufschlug, schenkten Geborgenheit und Freundschaft und verlangten nichts dafür, gingen nie fort, niemals, selbst dann nicht, wenn man sie schlecht behandelte.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Life is so simple when you're young, though of course that's not what it feels like to the young.

But i know a lot about the kind of men you mean. They're the same everywhere.

It had always been a myth that it was those who loved you who could see through you. It was those you feared who could see through you most clearly.

The wrong words. They were true a hundred times over, yet they sounded like a lie. Hadn't he always know it? Words were useless. At times they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moments you really needed them . You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is a silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.

I woke up and knew he was gone. Straightaway I knew he was gone. When you love somebody you know these things. David Almond, Skellig

To never let the other forget who they are—love is also about that.

Perhaps she was more like him than he'd thought: Her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer's ink. She probably felt as lost as he did in the real world.

Sometimes we think we know people at first sight," he said. "As though we'd met them a hundred times before, in another life, in another world. And then we realize that we know nothing. How did they look as children? What dreams startle them from their sleep?

No te preocupes por no poder hablar -solía decirle Dedo Polvoriento-. La gente no suele prestar atención.