Quotes About Understanding

She gestured vaguely along the aisle, towards the distance. "Death is outside." "Well, I should go there. Because I want to die." Nora began walking. But Mrs Elm shook her head. "That isn't how death works." "Why not?" "You don't go to death. Death comes to you.

Pain, of any kind, is a very isolating experience.

For me, reading was never an antisocial activity. It was deeply social. It was the most profound kind of socializing there was. A deep connection to the imagination of another human being. A way to connect without the many filters society normally demands.

Shops are to Earth-dwellers what equation booths are to Vonnadorians.

There are patterns to life . . . Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there

You see, the language of words was only one of the human languages. There were many others, as I have pointed out. The language of sighs, the language of silent moments, and most significantly, the language of frowns.

situations and chemistries didn't change, perspectives could. 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you "admit to," it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.

El matrimonio no he llegado a entenderlo, pero el amor sí.

ese era uno de los problemas fundamentales que tienen los humanos con la comprensión numérica: simple y llanamente, su sistema nervioso no está capacitado.

I love you," she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive.

see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvelous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things

who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.

But the point is: history is everywhere. It's about making people realise that. It makes you understand a place.

You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

Hugo shrugged. 'If I was religious, I'd say it was God. And as God is probably someone we can't see or comprehend then He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is

I need to tame the past. That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet.

She felt the strangeness of being connected to the world through someone else.

Minäkin hymyilin, ja iloni siitä, että joku ymmärsi minua, tuntui ankkuroivan sieluni paikoilleen.

Problemen met de geestelijke gezondheid zijn geen: Massahysterie. Modegril. Bevlieging. Trend bij sterren. Gevolg van toegenomen bewustzijn van geestelijke problematiek. Gemakkelijk gespreksonderwerp. En: geestelijke problemen zijn niet meer wat ze geweest zijn.

Her husband was a mystery she no longer had the energy to unravel. Anyway, it was known to be the first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

My mind is racing to understand. This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you. The hole is so used to being a hole it doesn't know how to close itself.

O imposibilitate este o posibilitate pe care inca nu ai inteles-o.