Quotes About Why

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents, "Why?

Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.

I guess, really, in summary, everything I've been trying to say is that your life should be full of stories you want to tell. If you don't want to tell it, ever, why are you doing it? Likewise, if no one else cares to hear your story, with limited exceptions, why are you doing it?

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Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but the taken-for-granted world they exile you from.

Whenever there was an opportunity for it, one had to give them a why—an aim—for their lives, in order to strengthen them to bear the terrible how of their existence.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. "Is this the point where I'm expected to ask why I've been abducted?

I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.

keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child

hearing it. This was invitation enough. Why, my dear, you

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking, why the hell not? Why not you? Why not now?

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was

Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?" "Because it exists.

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Whereas your purpose was the why of your going out to dinner, your vision was an image of the what—of the physical world's looking, sounding, and feeling the ways that best fulfilled your purpose.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Tienes la costumbre de querer saber por qué -el por qué no me interesa, la causa es la materia del pasado.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

What a lovely family you have, brother," he said. "Domestic perfection." "I still don't know why you're here," I said. "Don't you?" Brian said. "Wasn't I obvious?" "Painfully obvious," I said. "But not at all clear.

Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's