Quotes About Understanding

You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I'll hear you…

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

Forgiveness before one's death, isn't just about asking and receiving it, it's also about forgiving others.

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.

You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding.

People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

...this two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

...I'm just beginning to understand how kind you are.

To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.