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Quotes About Why

Why, my Lord, did you have to bring Me down from the safety of my hill Into the danger of your will? (David p. 34)
~ Madeleine L'Engle
GOOD WILL YOU MARK BELOW ALL ALL RIGHT WITH LOVE AFTERWARDS WHY NOT SAY YES [ ] YES
~ John Crowley
science, as good as it is with how, isn't equipped to deal with why.
~ Eileen Wilks
I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing and why.
~ Elif Batuman
If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
~ Julian Barnes
I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
~ Samuel Beckett
Kate wondered why they were both contemplating careers they were so unsuited for.
~ Anne Tyler
The learning of 'How' is the eternal 'Why' – unanswered! A genius is such, because he does not know how or why.
~ Austin Osman Spare
I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If
~ Anthony Robbins
Tell me, why do you love misery so much?
~ Sophocles
There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed are those who suffer from it
~ Emil M. Cioran
Then you're leaving the story unfinished, Mr. Author! Not more unfinished then a story ought to be, I hope. If you ever knew a story finished, all I can say is, I never did. Somehow, stories won't finish. I think I know why, but I won't say that either, now.
~ George MacDonald
When we are really given to the why of life, the hows begin to flow.
~ Gerald G. May
She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word why?
~ Ayn Rand
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
~ Stephen Hawking
The notion that the laws of nature had to be intentionally obeyed reflects the ancients' focus on why nature behaves as it does, rather than on how it behaves.
~ Stephen Hawking
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
~ Stephen King
Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.
~ Stephen King
Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?' Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.
~ Stephen King
Why the support for subprime lending?
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I knew that these more specialized reporters were best equipped to understand and then explain what we were doing and why. Other media would pick up on their reporting.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
And so long as we have this itch for explanations, must we not always carry round with us this cumbersome but precious bag of clues called History? Another definition: Man, the animal which demands an explanation, the animal which asks Why.
~ Graham Swift