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Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.
— Elizabeth Warren
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
— Letitia Landon
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
— Jim Woodring
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.
— Tim Allen
As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible.
— Marcel Schwob
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
— Oswald Spengler
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
— Philip Roth
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
— Richard Dawkins
I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense.
— James Ellroy
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
— Eugene Ionesco
There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I
— Connie Willis
There is nothing to learn about reasoning and invention if the motive and purpose of the most conspicuous step remain incomprehensible.
— George Polya
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
— Henry Rollins
I play the music of Stevenfor Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love - — Stasia Ward Kehoe
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
— Arnold Palmer
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
— Joseph Conrad
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
— Carlos Castaneda
Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.
— Elizabeth Goudge
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Incomprehensible spirit , sometimes light , sometimes sea.
— Samuel Beckett
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.
— Jean Meslier
It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.
— G.K. Chesterton
Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!
— Bryant McGill
Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved.
— Tana French
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
— Constantin Brancusi
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
— Lawrence Eagleburger
Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
— Maximus The Confessor
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.
— Faina Ranevskaya
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.
— Albert Camus
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
— Douglas Adams
The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.
— Brandon Sanderson
He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me,
— Javier Marias
Humans are so lost and damaged that to you it is almost incomprehensible that people could work or live together without someone being in charge.
— William Paul Young
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
— Clarice Lispector
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
— Gerhard Richter
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
— Alec Douglas-Home
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
— Bjarke Ingels
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.
— Leo Tolstoy
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
— Kevin Kline
What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.
— Fernando Pessoa
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
— Kingman Brewster Jr.
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.
— Franz Kafka
Well, some people's feelings are incomprehensible.
— Jane Austen
Was so incomprehensible he would say such things I thought there was a good possibility that Satan had ordered a fur coat.
— Kristen Ashley
I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
— Douglas Adams
The world is full of incomprehensible words
— Haruki Murakami
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
— Jane Austen
Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.
— Louis Aragon
There's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air - we all feel it - and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.
— Alessandro Baricco
The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
— Blaise Pascal
... girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those "in the know" assured me that they were beautiful.
— Jake Vander Ark
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
— Vance Packard
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
— Walter Darby Bannard
There are some beliefs and places in this city that are incomprehensible to some-hell-to most, and it's best to leave them alone.
— Sandy DeLuca
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.
— Terry Tempest Williams
It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.
— Theodore Roethke
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
— Clarence Darrow
You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.
— Theodore Schick
When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.
— Sakyong Mipham
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
— Ernest Renan
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
— Malcolm Wallop
Males are the most incomprehensible species.
— Rachel Cohn
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
— Peter Kreeft
