Quotes about Understanding

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.

To understand is to forgive.

You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care

You did not have to like it because you understood it.

But when we sit together, close, said Bernard, we melt into each other with phrases.

Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.

Oh, I love you so. Please put your hand there again. It's not been away. I turned her so I could see her face when I kissed her and I saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.

The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

I am afraid to die, Pilar,' he said. 'Tengo miedo de morir. Dost thou understand?' " 'Then get out of bed,' I said to him. 'There is not room in one bed for me and thee and thy fear all together.