Top 100 My Reason Quotes
#1. I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
Stephen Sondheim
#2. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.
Ayn Rand
#3. Not only does my world revolve around her, but she is my world. She's not just my reason for breathing, she's air itself. She's the meaning behind every one of my thoughts, every thrum of my pulse, every whisper of my conscience. She's my entire everything. It's as simple and as complex as that.
Laurelin Paige
#4. I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition!
Galileo Galilei
#5. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
(Winston Churchill)
Winston S. Churchill
#6. This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#7. I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#8. There were plenty of reasons to do the things I'd done, but Aiby had always been my reason.
Pierdomenico Baccalario
#9. I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
Thomas Browne
#10. Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#11. Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
Moliere
#12. I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#13. In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.
Tima Maria Lacoba
#14. About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.
Charles Darwin
#16. I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
Vincent Van Gogh
#17. My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away
Black Hawk
#18. All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel Kant
#19. My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Norman Cousins
#20. I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
Elie Wiesel
#21. I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.
Colleen Houck
#22. Don't. Ever. Fucking. Threaten. Me. Or push me away. Or let Bratva come between us. Bratva's not a problem -- Bratva is our reason for living. You are my reason for living. You're property - my property. You carry my mark.
Suzanne Steele
#23. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
Mikhail Bakunin
#24. My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille
#25. Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
Thomas Browne
#26. Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
Josh Groban
#27. When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
David Suchet
#28. Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.
Richard Dean Anderson
#29. This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason
Juvenal
#30. It is not enough to be able to think that if there are logical truths, natural selection might very well have given me the capacity to recognize them. That cannot be my ground for trusting my reason, because even that thought implicitly relies on reason in a prior way.
Thomas Nagel
#31. Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
#32. If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
Alexander Pushkin
#34. Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that
Daniel Webster
#35. I have just lost my reason for fighting so hard. How do I go on now, without my thing to fight for?' And he whispered into my ear, he said: 'Maybe it's time to stop fighting.
C. JoyBell C.
#37. I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did;
Rafael Sabatini
#38. I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.
Jeremy Scott
#39. I am beautiful and beauty is my reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
#40. Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.
Anne Bronte
#41. The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
#42. I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee
Ian McEwan
#43. My reason vanishes when we're together - that's the depth of my feeling for you.
E.L. James
#44. When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#45. I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#46. Heavenly Father, I will reason; I will will; I will act; but guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right thing that I should do.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#47. Even though I always knew I had a good nose for fragrances, the process of creating my own, 'Alive,' turned out to be a great learning experience for me. And the name explains my reason behind it. Smelling good makes you feel alive.
Arjun Rampal
#48. Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.
Rich Mullins
#49. It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel De Montaigne
#51. She is my salvation, my reason for existence, my queen.
Pepper Winters
#52. Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
Natalie Portman
#53. If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
Annie Leibovitz
#54. The reason of the unreasonableness which against my reason is wrought, doth so weaken my reason, as with all reason I do justly complain on your beauty.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#55. My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero,
Sheryl Swoopes
#56. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#57. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
#58. I am a mother. I see clearly that while I've been teaching them, they have been my reason to learn.
Tsara Shelton
#61. I knew-exactly-the moment I fell for him. "When we're up on the mountain getting ready to go down for that woman's body, you remember, you smiled at me." It was like the sun hat touched the earth and been born in his body. "That's when I think I really lost my reason.
James Buchanan
#62. When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
Jill Scott
#63. In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.
Brodi Ashton
#64. A canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
Irving Stone
#66. It's only now you're gone I see how you're my reason for doing things. Now I'm a stiltwalker with the stilts removed. My emptied trouser legs flap in the wind and I can't remember how to walk without being precipitously propped.
Sara Baume
#67. I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
Lucy Stone
#68. Why did you think my reason for being here had something to do with Frannie?" Luke asked. "Because she's what we all have in common." "No, Feagan is what we all have in common." "But Frannie is the one we all circle around to protect.
Lorraine Heath
#69. I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
Henry Fielding
#70. Every breath I breathe is because of you. Even when your weren't there to save me, you were my reason to breathe. And for that I will always love you. Always.
Rebecca Donovan
#71. Cathy, meeting you was chance, falling in love with you was destiny, and loving you is my reason to exist.
Mia Asher
#72. My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig
further about truth that force me do it, then you would
understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.
Toba Beta
#74. I realized it didn't mean anything without Perry by my side. She was my reason for living. She was the reason I'd come alive in the first place.
Karina Halle
#75. He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.
Ian McEwan
#76. Do you think that I like that part of me? That I enjoy doing the dirty work that being in the club requires? I fucking don't. But I do it for a reason. And six years ago, when I fell in love with you, my reason became you.
~J to Madison
Nina Levine
#77. Nothing in life had ever prepared me for the feelings I had for her. She was my beautiful, my reason, and my light.
J.M. LaRocca
#78. You are my soul, Olivia Taylor. You are my light. You are my reason to breathe. Don't ever doubt that.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#79. By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life I must renounce my reason, the very thing for which alone a meaning is required.
Leo Tolstoy
#80. Abby was my reason for being. God had a purpose for her and I was a part of it, I must be. Together we would fulfill His Design. I knew it to be true with every cell coursing through me. Abby belonged to me.
Ashlan Thomas
#81. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act.
Graham Greene
#82. My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals
Moby
#83. You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?
Aasif Mandvi
#84. My reason for getting into the film business was a Spider-Man comic called 'The Night Gwen Stacy Died' when I was a kid; it changed my life.
Chris Columbus
#85. if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought not my reason to judge that the pope was foolish in so commanding?
Jan Hus
#86. My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.
Nita Ambani
#87. I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#88. In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
Gabriela Mistral
#89. The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#91. Perry, I love you," he said, voice gruff and full of conviction. "I love you absolutely, resolutely. There is no question, no doubt. This love just is. It exists and because it exists, I exist ...
"You, only you, just you as you are, are my reason for being.
Karina Halle
#92. So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form of treason.
Kurt Vonnegut
#93. The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#94. My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus.
Chasta Schneider
#95. You're the empire I'd protect. You're my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You're my freedom.
Sarah Noffke
#96. My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.
Jonathan Gottschall
#97. Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
Daniel Webster
#98. My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
Coco Chanel
#99. If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
Dan Wells
#100. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.
Deepa Mehta
