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Quotes About Questioning

Are you sure you want to leave?
~ Jaci Burton
I plead the fifth.
~ Jaci Burton
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
~ Jack Kerouac
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
~ Jack Kerouac
You guys are going somewhere or just going?
~ Jack Kerouac
Every night I still ask the Lord, Why? and havent heard a decent answer yet
~ Jack Kerouac
Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream?
~ Jack Kerouac
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddamit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
~ Jack Kerouac
They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-Where are you going? which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, Where are you going?-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society Looking for peace.
~ Jack Kerouac
I don't know
~ Jack Kerouac
Where is he tonight? Where am I? Where are you?
~ Jack Kerouac
finally I went over to an old cook in the doorway of the kitchen and asked him "Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?" (Bodhidharma was the Indian who brought Buddhism eastward to China.) "I don't care," said the old cook, with lidded eyes, and I told Japhy and he said, "Perfect answer, absolutely perfect. Now you know what I mean by Zen.
~ Jack Kerouac
I dunno, maybe you're Goat.
~ Jack Kerouac
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - What is the meaning of the void? The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.
~ Jack Kerouac
Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, Perché? E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente.
~ Jack Kerouac
I wanted to know what 'IT' meant. 'Ah well' - Dean laughed - 'now you're asking me impon-de-rables - ahem!
~ Jack Kerouac
Au fond, Qu'est-ce qui est arrivé après ? — voilà la seule raison d'être de la vie ou d'une histoire.
~ Jack Kerouac
Quedamos tumbados de espaldas mirando al techo y preguntándonos qué se habría propuesto Dios al hacer un mundo tan triste.
~ Jack Kerouac
Whither goes thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
~ Jack Kerouac
hey kid, you got ma-ree-wa-naa?
~ Jack Kerouac
Izdržite sa mnom ovaj teret, svi ljubavnici ?itatelji koji ste otrpjeli muke, izdržite sa mnom, svi muškarci koji znate da je to more crnila u o?ima tamnooke žene usamljeno more i biste li pitali more da samo sebe objasni, ili ženu zašto je prekri?ila ruke preko ruže na svom krilu? ne-
~ Jack Kerouac
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
~ Henri Poincare
I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
~ Maximilian Schell
I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'
~ Moby