„Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.“

— Theodore Roosevelt

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„[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.“
— Jodi Picoult
„I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.“
— Haruki Murakami
„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
„I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.“
— Charles Manson
„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.“
— Hunter S. Thompson