Quotes About Understanding

Death was the end. Sometimes it took a whole lifetime to understand that. He thought of Sunny, journeying restlessly in search of the thing he had left behind. Promise me you'll make the most of your life, he said to Bertie. I promise, Bertie said, already at twenty-four knowing it was unlikely she would be able to do so.

An only child herself, she was frequently disturbed by the complexity of sibling relationships among her own children.

anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.)

Well, you know, Ruby, people are given the mother they need for a particular incarnation. But then she shrugs helplessly because neither of us can think why we needed Bunty.

she had never been pregnant, never been a mother or a wife, and it was only when she realized that it was too late, that it could never be, that she understood what it was that she had lost.

Harold?' 'Poor man, I suppose

Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.") Juliet, and perhaps Juliet alone, had begun to sense Godfrey's impatience. She had learned to read between the lines. But wasn't that where the most important things were said?

There are more and more visibly weird and freaky people in the world these days, and it's high time we stop carrying forward the junior high school dynamic of excluding them all from our lives or worse . . . nailing them to some cross.

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person

Without stories, how do we know who we are? How can we imagine who we can be?

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.

Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. Good-by--because I love you. He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.

Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select?

She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.

I would give my life for my children, but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me

I don't want to part in any ill-humor. But can't you understand? I've grown used to seeing you, to having you with me all the time, and your action seems unfriendly, even unkind. You don't even offer an excuse for it. Why, I was planning to be together.

The Ratignolles understood each other perfectly. If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union.

Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,--the light which, showing the way, forbids

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

Ah! si tu savais Ce que tes yeux me disent