Quotes About Understanding

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don't read the novel really.

and said that he still had his evening's reading. He did not do justice to a writer unless he read him on consecutive days and for no less than three hours at a sitting. Otherwise, despite his notetaking and underlining, he lost touch with a book's inner life and might as well not have begun. Sometimes, when he unavoidably had to miss a day, he would go back and begin all over again, rather than be nagged by his sense that he was wronging a serious author.

That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that—of just that.

To a dying person you can repeat yourself forever. They don't care. Just so they can still hear you talking.

One of the first rules of any marriage, (1) Don't forget the benefits of her (his) stupidity. (2) She (he) cannot be taught anything by you, so don't try.