Comprehend Quotes

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To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore… — Pearl S. Buck
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they… — Tom Robbins
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen
God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her… — Geraldine Brooks
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released… — Toni Morrison
We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why… — Sharon Kay Penman
I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself — Herman Melville
The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping,… — Robert Frost
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. — Jim Harrison
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./… — Homer
It seems to me that people who donâ€™t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityâ€”there is something different about the… — John Irving
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe. — Jostein Gaarder
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could… — Joseph Conrad
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like… — Lord Byron
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good,… — John Adams
What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live… — Philip K. Dick
Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend. — Kate Braverman
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped… — Kelley Armstrong
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver… — Lois Lowry
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can… — Brother Lawrence

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