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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. — Letitia Landon

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. — Robert Anton Wilson

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog. — Tim Allen

As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible. — Marcel Schwob

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. — Oswald Spengler

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust. — Philip Roth

Bring something incomprehensible into the world! — Gilles Deleuze

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result. — Philip Roth

I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense. — James Ellroy

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard

There is nothing to learn about reasoning and invention if the motive and purpose of the most conspicuous step remain incomprehensible. — George Polya

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. — Henry Rollins

I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love - — Stasia Ward Kehoe

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf. — Arnold Palmer

All men are. I declare, I think you to be the most incomprehensible creatures. — Stephen Crane

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible. — Igor Stravinsky

Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator. — Rawi Hage

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. — Joseph Conrad

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery. — Carlos Castaneda

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus

To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable. — Robert H. Baker

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. — Jack Vance

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. — Lawrence Eagleburger

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. — Jean Giraudoux

Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light. — Saul Bellow

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned. — Lili St. Crow

Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power. — Maximus The Confessor

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. — Faina Ranevskaya

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone. — Albert Camus

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. — Galway Kinnell

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. — Starhawk

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. — John C. Lennox

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo. — Ken Follett

All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood — Romain Gary

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. — Nelson Mandela

Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible. Find the stories that make you stronger. — Eleanor Davis

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face. — Tim Wise

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. — D.H. Lawrence

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! — Jane Austen

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P. J. O'Rourke

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. — Parker J. Palmer

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. — John Maynard Keynes

The wind whispered secrets in its own incomprehensible language. — Tracy Rees

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse. — Jack Kerouac

There is no justice in love ... it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality ... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. — Marilynne Robinson

The heart makes incomprehensible choices. — Bernadette Strachan

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. — Alec Douglas-Home

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely — Max Frisch

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible. — Fernando Pessoa

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible. — Malcolm Wallop

Males are the most incomprehensible species. — Rachel Cohn

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. — Peter Kreeft

This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible. — Anthony Marra

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. — Oscar Wilde

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. — Leo Tolstoy

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. — Kevin Kline

When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity. — Sakyong Mipham

The world is like that
incomprehensible and full of surprises . — Jorge Amado

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. — Antonin Artaud

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. — Bjarke Ingels

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work. — Peter Straub

I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it — Douglas Adams

The world is full of incomprehensible words — Haruki Murakami

There's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air - we all feel it - and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming. — Alessandro Baricco

The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures — Jules Verne

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. — Alfred A. Knopf

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. — Alfred Russel Wallace

He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me, — Javier Marias

Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts. — Tad Williams

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. — Clarice Lispector

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. — G.I. Gurdjieff

The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible. — Brandon Sanderson

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art! — Bryant McGill

Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved. — Tana French

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless — Douglas Adams

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible. — August Macke

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible. — Theodore Schick

... girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those "in the know" assured me that they were beautiful. — Jake Vander Ark

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. — Vance Packard

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. — Agnes Repplier

People often do the incomprehensible. It's what makes them so fascinating. — J.D. Robb

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge. — Clarence Darrow

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova