Understood Quotes

2381 Understood quotes by 1698 unique authors

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for… — Lisa See
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun. — Alice Hoffman
It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private. — Nicholas Sparks
I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when… — Abbi Glines
You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise… — Madonna Ciccone
He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth… — Guillaume Musso
When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I… — Judith Butler
She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was… — Marissa Meyer
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I knew then that I had never understood what humans called love. But if that was anything close to the power you held over me,… — Abbi Glines
He told me that once, in the war, heâ€™d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just… — Libba Bray
For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred… — Muriel Barbery
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you… — Anton Chekhov
...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward… — Kristin Cashore
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this… — Alice Hoffman
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a… — Rachel Joyce
It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood. — John Green
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others… — Harry Mulisch
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life thatâ€™s not my natural habitat. I am the… — David Levithan
I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out… — Paulo Coelho

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