Understood Quotes

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The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that canâ€™t give way, is an offer of something not… — Christopher Hitchens
I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be… — Rachel Vincent
I am no good without you, Ginesse,â€ he said. â€œI spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you.… — Connie Brockway
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white… — Alexander Shulgin
I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already… — Craig Silvey
I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all Iâ€™ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and… — William Goldman
And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be… — Soren Kierkegaard
If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He… — Cinda Williams Chima
And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood. — Gayle Forman
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. Iâ€™m shutting down. I need to go the other… — Augusten Burroughs
If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face.… — Sarah Dessen
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — Hanif Kureishi
It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you… — Justin Cronin
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or… — Mary Renault
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all… — Rebecca Solnit
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… — Ernest Hemingway
Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this… — Jo Walton

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