#incomprehensible

Without sacrifice, true love is 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 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

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

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

— Antonin Artaud

#chatter #incomprehensible #language #like #teeth

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

— Malcolm Wallop

#incomprehensible #literally #utter

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#dislike #general #incomprehensible #obnoxious #people

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. ↗