This is true, and I think it frightens people? Because accepting it means accepting that there is a whole big world out there that you will never *really* understand. It's like being confronted with the fact that you will die before experiencing 99.9% of what life has to offer.
the thing monolinguals don't understand is that it is literally impossible to accurately translate everything. all translations are fundamentally rewrites of the original author's work and you can either accept that or bust out Genki I and II and start studying