Understood Quotes

2381 Understood quotes by 1698 unique authors

He told me that once, in the war, he’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 that’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
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second,… — Richard Dawkins
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to… — Richard Bach
The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic.… — Gary Snyder
Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold… — Alan Moore
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless… — Lauren Oliver
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our… — Adam Phillips
Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity. — G I Gurdjieff
I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of… — Steve Berry
Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover… — Ally Carter
I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't… — Sara Shepard
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. — Jane Smiley
There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly.… — Rachel Simon
It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood. — Lucy Christopher
I can’t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl… And this boy can think of… — Jennifer Flackett

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