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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
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
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 Stevenfor 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
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
To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.
— Robert H. Baker
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
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
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
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
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
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
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
— Kingman Brewster Jr.
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
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
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
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
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
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