Top 100 Never Understand Life Quotes
#2. Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it since they were babies. That's crazy. It fundamentally changes they way they understand and think about technology. They've never known life without it, whereas we knew life without the Internet.
Brit Morin
#3. I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.
Arnold Palmer
#4. I don't want to die, Arlen, but I would lay down my life for any of these men, or they for me. That's a real thing, sacrifice, but you will never understand it.
Erika Johansen
#5. I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.
Kristin Armstrong
#6. As much as we all know that some things are easier said than done, we have to understand that if we don't say it, we may never do it.
Stephan Labossiere
#7. If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.
Mike Tyson
#8. I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,
Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..
Never to the defect of demanding of the World
That it be anything that's not the World.
Alberto Caeiro
#9. I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.
Frank Sinatra
#10. I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch
Ransom Riggs
#11. We are born to believe
We can't change a thing
We can't, and we never could.
But before you believe
The things you believe
You must understand
To be understood.
John C. O'Callaghan
#12. Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
Arthur Golden
#13. The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either.
Brian K. Vaughan
#14. The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill Gates
#15. When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.
Steve Largent
#16. Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
Kaspar Hauser
#17. Never judge anyone but to love and understand everyone.
Debasish Mridha
#18. If there's one thing I've learned in life, if there's one rule I live by, it's never to regret what's happened. Understand by all means, but never regret - it's such a devouring pastime and one that leads nowhere.
Alan Goodwin
#19. Who tries to sabotage my time and priority in life can never understand the sensible, best choices of my heart.
Angelica Hopes
#20. There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.
Abhijit Naskar
#21. Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.
Edward Hoagland
#22. If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#23. It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
Edward T. Hall
#24. You will never be fulfilled until you understand that you must live your life for others, not for yourself.
Greg Baxter
#25. I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.
Thomas Metzinger
#26. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis
#27. Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions.
Parker J. Palmer
#28. I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.
Marsha Thomason
#29. A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
Carter Burwell
#30. Look at me," he said. "Keep looking only at me. There is no danger. You're perfectly safe. I've got you. I've always got you. You're mine. I will never let go. I will always protect you. You are my life now. Do you understand anything I'm saying?" Her
Thea Harrison
#31. If it's a phase, so what? If it's your whole life, who cares? You're destined to evolve and understand yourself in ways you never imagined before. And you've got our blood running through your beautiful veins, so no matter what, you've been blessed with the spirit of women who know how to love.
Gabby Rivera
#32. I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.
Hunter S. Thompson
#33. I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.
Ron Luciano
#34. I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill had written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a very handsome letter, indeed. Mr. Woodhouse told me of it. Mr. Woodhouse saw the letter, and he says he never saw such a handsome letter in his life.
Jane Austen
#35. Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy ... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
Plato
#36. Ishmael was looking at him through narrowed eyes. "This is very important to you, this box."
"It's important to the world."
Ishmael said: "The sun rises, and the sun sets. Sometimes it rains. We live, then we die." He shrugged.
He would never understand, Wolff thought; but others would.
Ken Follett
#37. I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.
Lorraine Bracco
#38. I wanted to say, My life is full. I chose this life because it's a constant assault of color and taste and light and it's raw and ugly and fast and it's mine. And you'll never understand. Until you live it, you don't know.
Stephanie Danler
#39. To love someone means you have something in life to fight for, something to live for - I guess you wouldn't know, you've never felt love, so you can't possibly understand.
J.A. Redmerski
#40. Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'.
Fennel Hudson
#41. Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well.
Megan Wilson
#43. I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.
E. M. Forster
#44. There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.
Melissa McCarthy
#45. Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
Honore De Balzac
#46. I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
Thomas Mann
#47. Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams - dreams, do you understand - come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
C.S. Lewis
#48. What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.
Philip K. Dick
#49. I understand golf is a game, and I've never treated it as anything else. Family is something that's very special, and so they all contributed to the room. They all contributed to what my life was, my career was.
Jack Nicklaus
#50. Never make a promise you can't keep.
Never look down on a person you can't help.
Never solicit a question you can't answer.
Never judge a person you don't understand.
Never condemn a person you don't know.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. I've finally come to understand that life itself is the Fun House. All you want is that door marked EXIT, the escape to a place where Real Life will be; and you can never find it.
Claire Messud
#52. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
#53. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#54. Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.
Stephenie Meyer
#55. You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5).
John C. Broger
#56. You will never be able to live a victorious Christian life, unless you learn during your times of praying in tongues to understand the depths of what God's Spirit is revealing to your mind.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
Harper Lee
#58. I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
Anna Quindlen
#59. For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
Blake Shelton
#60. It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. "It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry" he would say. "I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.
Halldor Laxness
#61. She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would never understand.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#62. A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you.
Debasish Mridha
#63. That's when I know they've never lost someone. If they had, they'd understand. That you always miss them. That the pain doesn't go. That life stops.
Debbie Howells
#64. In the game of life the most important thing is not the game itself but the PLAYER.
Because the player who does not know himself will never understand his game.
Maria Pelisek
#65. I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country ... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
Edward Brooke
#66. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Harper Lee
#67. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.
Dan Pearce
#68. When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
Muriel Spark
#69. No one else would get it, Amanda. No one else would understand how one fucking night with a virtual stranger changed me. How I never wanted to be close to anybody my entire life. Not until I met you.
Jay McLean
#70. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.
C. JoyBell C.
#72. I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.
Tracy McGrady
#73. Love wasn't an emotion I was able to sustain for very long. I tried once, maybe twice in my life, and it just never panned out. It was a dull emotion and I couldn't understand the concept so I decided not to dwell on it.
Yolanda Olson
#74. In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.
Anton Chekhov
#75. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath Tagore
#76. I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It's just not very entertaining.
Norm MacDonald
#77. We often search for the gold in our life but we fail to understand that all glisters are not gold, When we understand our mistake it's too late, So never run after anything, Just wait for the right time to get the best in life.
Debolina Bhawal
#78. You can never get a true measure of a person - you can never fully understand yourself, even - because life is always throwing new things at us.
K.M. Shea
#79. They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.
Celeste Ng
#80. I've pushed your love away and I've run from you, sometimes I've checked out, but this is the reason. I just couldn't understand what we have. I mean we have never met in real life, yet we've loved each other for over 3 years.
Chimnese Davids
#81. Never look for a reason to be kind, just be kind to everyone. Kindness is the language of heart that everyone can understand.
Debasish Mridha
#82. And for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.
Stephen Chbosky
#83. When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'
Michael Palin
#84. We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.
Jack Kerouac
#85. Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
Judy Blume
#86. It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
Wilkie Collins
#87. Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden
Until Della walked into my life I didn't understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I'd seen it once -Woods
Abbi Glines
#88. I had never before seen somebody I admired understand what was expected of him, choose to act otherwise, and be happier for it. For the first time in my life I realized that it was possible to reinvent oneself.
Joel Derfner
#89. I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.
Chris Noth
#90. Never again shall I understand anything I say. Since how could I speak without the word lying for me? How could I speak except timidly like this: life just is for me. Life just is for me, and I don't understand what I'm saying. And so I adore it.
Clarice Lispector
#91. I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.
Diyar Harraz
#92. I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn't control the happenings, it's like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes ...
JaszCab.
#93. Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life?
Is it possible to love a woman simply for her beauty, to love the statue of a woman?
Leo Tolstoy
#94. I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
Amelie Nothomb
#95. Matthew had been accumulating secrets ... My life might be too brief to hear them all, never mind understand them.
Deborah Harkness
#96. This is the unique element in the gospel, which tells us that what we could never do, God has done. We cannot climb up to heaven to discover God, but God has come down to earth, in the person of his Son, to reveal himself to us in the only way we could really understand: in terms of a human life.
Norman Anderson
#97. I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never died, then you cannot possibly know if you would go on living a second life, or go on living no more lives.
Cassandra Kemper
#98. I want to know
or understand something. I've been sick my whole life. What is the point of being alive if I never get to live?
Erin Kellison
#99. The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
Miguel Ferrer
#100. I think of life as very much like a game. The one who created it gave us the rules by which it is to be played, rules designed to help us win, rules to help us be happy. The problem is many times we choose to play by our own rules, and then we're at a loss to understand why we never win.
Julie Lessman
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