Quotes About Understanding

we who have travelled much and loved much: we who have -- I will not say suffered for we have always recognized through suffering our own self-sufficiency -- only we appreciate the complexities of tenderness, and understand how narrowly love and friendship are related

One learns nothing from those who return our love.

How difficult it is to analyse these relationships which lie under the mere skin of our actions; for loving is only a sort of skin-language, sex a terminology merely.

There is always a philosophy behind the misadventures of men, even if they are unaware of it.' And

We had not a taste in common. Our characters and predispositions were wholly different, and yet in the magical ease of this friendship we felt something promised us.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine'.)

But is there a friendship possible to attain which is deeper, even limitlessly deep, and yet wordless, idealess? It seems somehow necessary to find a human being to whom one can be faithful, not in the body (I leave that to the priests) but in the culprit mind?

Loving is so much truer when sympathy, not desire, makes the match; for it leaves no wounds.

How do you spell love in Alexandria?' he said at last, softly. 'That is the question. Sleeplessness, loneliness, bonheur, chagrin -- I do not want to harm or annoy her, but I feel that somehow, somewhere, she must need me as I need her.

this wonder of an Englishman who spoke indifferent but comprehensible Greek.… Before we parted he drew a

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

Being is the great explainer.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.