Quotes about Understanding
The grasping of another person in his uniqueness means loving him[.]
— Viktor E. Frankl
They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.
— Virginia Woolf
It is no use trying to sum people up.
— Virginia Woolf
But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
— Virginia Woolf
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
— Virginia Woolf
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.
— Virginia Woolf
One wanted fifty pairs of eyes to see with, she reflected. Fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one woman with, she thought.
— Virginia Woolf
She had done the usual trick - been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and the worst were between men and women. Inevitably these were extremely insincere.
— Virginia Woolf
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
— Virginia Woolf
When I heard you cry I followed you, and saw you put down your handkerchief, screwed up, with its rage, with its hate, knotted in it.
— Virginia Woolf
Have I never understood you, Katherine? Have I been very selfish?' 'Yes ... You've asked her for sympathy, and she's not sympathetic; you've wanted her to be practical, and she's not practical.
— Virginia Woolf
He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings.
— Virginia Woolf