Quotes about Understanding

I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn't nobody hold it personal. It was like he was outside of it too, same as you, and getting mad at it would be kind of like getting mad at a mud-puddle that splashed you when you stepped in it.

I've seed de first en de last, Dilsey said. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

We are old; you cannot understand that, that you will or can ever reach a time when you can bear so much and no more; that nothing else is worth the bearing; that you not only cannot, you will not; that nothing is worth anything but peace, peace, peace, even with bereavement and grief—nothing!

I realised; no: knew; it was obvious; Boon himself admitted it in so many words)

But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!