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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's… — Eric Hoffer
--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. — Marilynne Robinson
only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand.… — Julia Quinn
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become… — Karl Jaspers
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense… — Anita Shreve
I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor… — Brennan Manning
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and… — Diana Gabaldon
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world… — Hermann Hesse
No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech.… — Diana Gabaldon
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even… — Joyce Carol Oates
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises . — Jorge Amado
the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never… — Ellen Wittlinger
They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none… — Ivo Andric
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity… — Elizabeth Gilbert
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
Bring something incomprehensible into the world! — Gilles Deleuze
I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned. — Lilith Saintcrow
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the… — Catherynne M. Valente
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should… — Bernhard Schlink
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect--… — William Styron

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