Quotes About Why

He knows the human heart cannot resist a cry of "Why" when innocence is ruined;

There is no comfort in being a statistical exception. It's like having a rare disease or being the victim of outrageous misfortune - you keep asking yourself, Why me? Why not someone else?

Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?

Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?...

This saddened Zech, and he pondered the why of it.

He concluded that the answer is meaning. Those who had the best chance of survival were those whose lives had broader purpose, who had some goal or project or relationship, some reason to live. As he later wrote (paraphrasing Nietzsche), "Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.

I was worrying about the milk, about my children falling in love, about the creatures who crawled through the dark towards us, their ancestors, their loving assassins, breathing 'Why?' like a cold wind.

Religion asks why. Science asks how.