Top 82 I Cannot Fathom Quotes
#1. How anybody in town could think me a murderer when I couldn't even throw a stray out into the rain, I cannot fathom.
Linda Barlow
#2. Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.
Elizabeth Enright
#3. If I was a braver man, I'd leave things the way they are, but I can't. You asked me why I'm a coward because I refuse to be without you. I cannot fathom any kind of a happy existence if you're not in it.
Colleen Houck
#4. I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#5. I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice
Alexis De Tocqueville
#6. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.
Helen Keller
#7. It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker.
Chuck Klosterman
#8. What evil lies in the hearts of some? I cannot fathom it.
Sasha Summers
#9. For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.
Ann Aguirre
#10. One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
Daniel Radcliffe
#11. I am a man of cultivation; I have studied various remarkable books, but I cannot fathom the direction of my preferences; do I want to live or do I want to shoot myself, so to speak? But in order to be ready for all contingencies, I always carry a revolver in my pocket.
Anton Chekhov
#12. My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
John Green
#13. The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.
Selma Lagerlof
#14. Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create new melodies in the music of time. There are infinite harmonies to be explored.
Clifford A. Pickover
#15. The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?
Wilkie Collins
#16. Someone stabbed a dead body for reasons only the insane can fathom. My mother has found me.
Susan Ee
#17. She frowned. "I don't understand"
"You can't love me. No one does" The sincerity in his voice and expression was heart-wrenching. He truly couldn't fathom anyone caring about him. Not even her.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. You've come to understand gang violence as symptomatic of an abiding civil conflict whose proportions we can only begin to fathom; now you watch church kids fumble their fingers toward Eastside, toward Killaz.
Leslie Jamison
#19. The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
William Dampier
#20. This is a truth so brutally self-evident that he can't fathom why it's not more widely perceived, hence his contempt for the usual public shock and outrage when a particular situation goes to hell
Ben Fountain
#21. The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.
Paul Hawken
#22. Between us what it was? i couldn't fathom, till she was gone.
Aporva Kala
#23. Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
P. J. O'Rourke
#24. The Epic?" Raylynn raised her eyebrows. "You actually read through it?" "Of course." Vhalla couldn't fathom who wouldn't finish a book once they'd started.
Elise Kova
#25. I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.
Michelle Rodriguez
#26. I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?
Joe Carnahan
#27. Fathom curled his claws around the brown sphere and brought his snout close to it, feeling quite silly indeed.
Tui T. Sutherland
#28. A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.
Mary E. DeMuth
#29. Then they took us to the birthing suite, which I call the electronic bullshit room because it's full of all sorts of electronic bullshit we can't fathom but are just glad to have on principle.
Suzanne Finnamore
#30. Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.
Morgan Wootten
#31. Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.
Chris Carter
#32. I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.
Charles McCarry
#33. I do urge you to welcome children. Even one child will make a difference in your life that you cannot fathom. I promise you, my girl.
Maryanne O'Hara
#34. Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurier
#35. I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.
William Landay
#36. I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
Chris Pine
#37. You don't know what I am, anymore. You cannot fathom what I've endured. Don't imagine you've tamed me.
Jodi Meadows
#38. I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even pain. The strangest of things is the way the hungry always return to the very same hand. The hand they know. The one that cannot give.
Sonja Livingston
#39. I need to feel you as a man does a woman. You have no idea what it costs me to say these things to you. You cannot fathom what it means. I need you. I lay the truth before you. Would you turn me away? Right here and now, Muse, I am but a man.
Pippa DaCosta
#40. She loved that man madly, but in a delirious way of some kind; there was never any mooching and mincing around, just talk and a very deep companionship that none of us would ever be able to fathom.
Jack Kerouac
#41. Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.
Suki Kim
#42. You defy questions;
You defy other godhood.
I walk dry on your kingdom's border,
Exiled to no good.
Sylvia Plath
#43. After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8
Nicole Krauss
#44. The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.
Francine Prose
#45. Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured ... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
Ben Stein
#46. I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes.
Ingrid Law
#47. The most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour.
Alan Moore
#48. You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#49. Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#50. We had a secret knowledge that demons couldn't fathom. They saw love as a weakness, but they were wrong. Love would keep us going, love was our strength.
Wendy Higgins
#51. The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom
Ashim Shanker
#52. God has given you the same brain, so use your own in stead of borrowing ideas from somebody else. Think about and fathom the ideas before following them.
Raj Singh
#53. All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Piers Anthony
#54. I'm very aware of how well I am operating in situations that I would have been incapable of broaching even last summer. Chris, Sabin, Eric, and Estelle, have rescued me, and I can't fathom how I can ever begin to repay them.
Jessica Park
#55. We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens ...
Johannes Kepler
#56. Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
Flannery O'Connor
#57. Tsukuru couldn't fathom what this substance was. He couldn't accept or reject it. It merely settled on his body as a shadowy swarm, laying an ample amount of shadowy eggs. Then darkness would withdraw and twilight would return, bringing with it the birds, who once again slashed away at his body.
Haruki Murakami
#58. I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....
Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil
Amna Iqbal
#59. As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).
Vinny Flynn
#60. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.
John Green
#61. In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.
William Dampier
#63. Being president of the United States is the most stressful, thankless job in the world and Margaret can't fathom why anyone would voluntarily pursue it.
Elin Hilderbrand
#64. There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this:
I have a responsibility I need to fathom.
I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.
Michelle Dicinoski
#65. Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion.
Marcel Proust
#66. We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
Nelly Mazloum
#67. A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#68. It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
Madeleine L'Engle
#69. Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#70. I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.
Laird Barron
#71. I'll come back to get you, too, okay?"
"Why?" he snapped.
"Because," she said with a gasp, unable to fathom the source of his question, or his tone. "Because I love you, that's why.
Kelly Creagh
#72. Oh Jesus, thank You. It's only through You that I can fathom such grace. To be redeemed to You through a mercy I can't even begin to understand. But I believe in You. I trust in You. And I'm clinging to Your promises as if they truly are life rafts in a dark and stormy sea.
Diane Moody
#73. The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.
Ron Suskind
#74. To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.
Jessica Hische
#75. There is wisdom in realizing that God's unimaginable design within us is a design that will always thrust our short-sighted boundaries out to horizons that we can't even fathom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#76. Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!
Agatha Christie
#77. Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on ...
Matthew Pearl
#78. She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.
Jessica Katoff
#79. We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.
David Rhodes
#80. You can't fathom why some people behave the way they do
E.L. James
#81. Who can fathom the danger and pain of a visit to the City Council?
Joseph Fink
#82. No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.
Veronica Roth
