Understand Why Quotes
614 quotes by 492 authors
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Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with…
— Patrick deWitt
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But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You…
— William Landay
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Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging…
— Stephen King
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I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
— Tony Kushner
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Someday you'll find the place It's the place where love takes over hate Then you'll see all the things you do Affect everyone around you…
— Hilary Duff
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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
— Mitch Albom
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You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you…
— Gayle Forman
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A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because…
— Sarah Kane
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And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what…
— Melina Marchetta
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Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.
— George R. R. Martin
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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
— Charles Bukowski
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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So,…
— Jack Kerouac
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While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot…
— C.S. Lewis
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his.…
— Abbi Glines
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Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two…
— Nancy Garden
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Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all…
— Veronica Roth
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I never understand why women think drama and bullshit are attractive to guys. They’re not. I’m going to be real clear about this, ladies, so…
— Tucker Max
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Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make…
— Neil Gaiman
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I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
— Stephen King
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