Incomprehensible Quotes

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

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

I hadn`t accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn`t wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn`t any activity at all.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

Rachel and Lilly loved Neil very much. Neil was a trusted husband and father and it is incomprehensible how that love and trust was betrayed in the ultimate act of violence. We are heartbroken at the loss to understand how this happened, but as our pastor, Father McKenzie reminded us just eight days ago, God didn`t do this. There is evil among us.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

It`s incomprehensible. Kathleen and my father had the most loving relationship. They never fought.

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

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

This literature was completely incomprehensible to me, but I became immersed in the sounds of the language of these great writers.

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

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

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

I`ve been in this business at the top level for 50 years and that there was any discussion, to me, that`s incomprehensible.