Understood Quotes

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They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often… — Alice Hoffman
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the… — Jonathan Carroll
Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic. — Hugh Prather
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I… — Aimee Bender
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the… — Douglas Adams
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters… — Jodi Picoult
And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I… — Elizabeth Scott
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. — Alain de Botton
I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference,… — Jennifer Egan
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing. — David Sedaris
I understood all that in my head, but I still didnâ€Ÿt believe it in my heart. — Gayle Forman
We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood,… — Peter HÃ¸eg
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. — Bell Hooks
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the… — Sylvia Brownrigg
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. — Jennifer Egan
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Mieville
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Hector Hugh Munro
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood. — Deepak Chopra
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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