Quotes About Understanding

I'm not smarter than you, I'm more knowledgeable than you, and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

Without context, we'd all be monsters.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint . . . Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not true. More likely, the young and the old are lonely in different ways, in their own ways...

It hurts me when you do not want to hurt me.

A Seeing Eye bitch is not only for blind people but for people who pine for the negative of loneliness.

I trust that you have a good purpose for your ignorance