Incomprehensible Quotes
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“I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”
― On the Gods and Other Essays
― On the Gods and Other Essays
“Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.”
― The Ghosts and Other Lectures
― The Ghosts and Other Lectures
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues" which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.”
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
“But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible — something that remained of men who had walked and talked with one and told one stories, men whom one had loved and looked up to. But where had it gone? It was all very puzzling, and he did not understand.”
― The Far Pavilions
― The Far Pavilions
“I have yet to understand the ritual of sacrifice in monotheism; to a supposed Creator who has supposedly given us what we will be eventually sacrificing.
If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun?”
― The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun?”
― The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
“One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“the thing that is between you and me,
there is something between you and me...
it is ineffable what is between you and me
it is incomprehensible what is between you and me
it is indefinable what is between you and me
it is indescribable what is between you and me
but there is something between you and me
the thing that is between you and me...”
―
there is something between you and me...
it is ineffable what is between you and me
it is incomprehensible what is between you and me
it is indefinable what is between you and me
it is indescribable what is between you and me
but there is something between you and me
the thing that is between you and me...”
―
“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.
("Introduction")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
("Introduction")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
“... While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers often come closer to clulessness. ... It is no surprise that no one understood Blake, but other poets fared not much better. ... Coleridge's 'Christabel' was 'the standing enigma which puzzles the curiosity of literary circles. What is it all about?', while another reviewer asked about Shelley, 'What, in the name of wonder on one side, and of common sense on the other, is the meaning of this metaphysical rhapsody about the unbinding of Prometheus?'. Even Keats was condemned for 'his frequent obscurity and confusion of language' and his 'unintelligible quaintness'. Byron, never to be outdone, boasted in 'Don Juan' that not only did he not understand many of his fellow poets, he did not understand himself either: 'I don't pretend that I quite understand / My own meaning when I would be very fine.' ...”
― Romanticism and the Rise of English
― Romanticism and the Rise of English
“May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and do we know how much we add to ourselves when we awake something of the incomprehensible that slumbers in every corner? Here you have awakened love which will not fall asleep again. … nothing can ever separate two souls which, for an instant, ‘have been good together.”
― The Treasure of the Humble
― The Treasure of the Humble
“Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible
Find the stories that make you stronger.”
― How To Be Happy
Find the stories that make you stronger.”
― How To Be Happy
“Thus would it be with a man if, while remaining within the bounds of human reason, experience and feelings, he were suddenly to see God Himself. He would see Him but would not understand, even though he knew that it was God, and he would tremble with inconceivable sufferings of incomprehension.”
― Seven Who Were Hanged
― Seven Who Were Hanged
“The core issue in monotheism is righteousness/wickedness.
Righteous/wicked qualifies a person acting or being Good/bad.
In an environment of scarcity, man’s vital strategy for collective survival hinges on being good to his clan and bad to rival clans to acquire or defend resources.
So the creation/elaboration/nurture of both good and bad can only be the consequence of a primary cause: scarcity.
Monotheism “Revealing” such a mental disadvantage in a Creator as to confuse consequences for causes is … revelatory.”
―
Righteous/wicked qualifies a person acting or being Good/bad.
In an environment of scarcity, man’s vital strategy for collective survival hinges on being good to his clan and bad to rival clans to acquire or defend resources.
So the creation/elaboration/nurture of both good and bad can only be the consequence of a primary cause: scarcity.
Monotheism “Revealing” such a mental disadvantage in a Creator as to confuse consequences for causes is … revelatory.”
―
“Belief acts as a temporary bridge when we are trying to accept something that seems incomprehensible. We use belief and simply accept the workings we cannot understand until the time comes when at last we comprehend.”
― Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
― Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
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