„Your prejudices, your fears, your authorities, your churches new and old – all these, I maintain, are a barrier to understanding. I cannot make myself clearer than this. I do not want you to agree with me, I do not want you to follow me, I want you to understand what I am saying.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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„I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.“
— Franz Kafka
„i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens; only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses“
— E.E. Cummings
„I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. […] Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.“
— Greta Thunberg
„I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding—not even that—no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.“
— Tennessee Williams
„And today, I want to share with you my vision of what our future can be. I want the Cuban people -- especially the young people -- to understand why I believe that you should look to the future with hope; not the false promise which insists that things are better than they really are, or the blind optimism that says all your problems can go away tomorrow. Hope that is rooted in the future that you can choose and that you can shape, and that you can build for your country.“
— Barack Obama
„Anything you see in me is in you. If you want to see a vicious killer, that's who you'll see, do you understand that? If you see me as your brother, that's what I'll be. It all depends on how much love you have. I am you, and when you can admit that, you will be free. I am just a mirror.“
— Charles Manson