Incomprehensible Quotes

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.

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

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

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

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

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.

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.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

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

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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

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.

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.

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

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are 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.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

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

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.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

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.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

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.

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

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

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

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

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

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