#incomprehensible

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#creatures #death #divine #except #ignorant

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#eat #food #good #incomprehensible #kind

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#far #grander #i #imagine #incomprehensible

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. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#biggest #biggest challenge #case #challenge #conflicts

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#conviction #deep #emotional #forms #god

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. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#activity #any #brain #came #close

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

— Eugene Ionesco

#explanation #gateway #incomprehensible #only #separates

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #before #cart #comprehension #doctrines

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

— Antonin Artaud

#chatter #incomprehensible #language #like #teeth