Quotes About Inexplicable

Virtue is virtue, and, like suffering, it is inexplicable, irreducible, unintelligible.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Life is full of changes. And surprises. And the inexplicable(s).

THERE IS A river that runs through time and the universe, vast and inexplicable, a flow of spirit that is at the heart of all existence, and every molecule of our being is a part of it. And

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn't know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.

I think there should be a little bit of uneasiness in everything, because I do think we're all really in a sense living on the edge. So much of life is inexplicable. . . . The things that happen to you are usually the things that you haven't thought of or that come absolutely out of nowhere. And all you can do is cope with them when they turn up.

Strange are the ways of human behavior.

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age: you don't have any clear reason, you just do it. You do it because you think it might get a laugh, or because you want to see if it'll cause a stir. And when you're asked to explain afterwards, it doesn't seem to make any sense.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

Something unspeakable left the room.

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

I don't really know why I'm crying. I can't explain it myself, much less stop it.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

human behavior being inexplicable to rational felines,

Anyhow, Molly died, in the way that all really good things die, fast and brutal and for no apparent reason.

Desire baffles knowledge and power.