Top 100 No Answer Quotes
#1. So who's lucky number three?
No answer.
I turn around to look at him again.
No.
He grins.
Now I get it, I tell him. You're stalking me.
Cynthia Hand
#2. He could find no answer, except life's usual answer to the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: live in the needs of the day, that is, find forgetfulness. He
Leo Tolstoy
#3. Sometimes it's as important to prove there is no answer to a question as it is to answer it.
Keigo Higashino
#4. When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out ...
Eugene Ionesco
#5. One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'
And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'
'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'
But the prince made no answer.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#6. Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
Samuel Johnson
#8. There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.
Leo Rosten
#9. No answer, just a squeal of brakes, a shrill "Fuck," and static.
N.E. White
#10. It was a question now, rather than a statement; a question with no answer.
Margaret Atwood
#11. Elizabeth made no answer, and walked on, her heart swelling with indignation. After watching her a little, Fitzwilliam asked her why she was so thoughtful.
Jane Austen
#12. There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.
Gertrude Stein
#13. I felt exalted.
It was my moment. This was my place and my
time and my own perfection.
I was no longer afraid. Weird. If I'd had a
mouth I'd have smiled.
I said.
No one moved.
I asked.
No answer.
I said, almost laughing.
Katherine Applegate
#14. If a soft answer turneth away wrath, maybe no answer stirreth wrath up.
Wendell Berry
#15. Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years ... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.
Stuart Townsend
#16. And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.
Rick Yancey
#17. But I like business,' said Pancks, getting on a little faster. 'What's a man made for?' 'For nothing else?' said Clennam. Pancks put the counter question, 'What else?' It packed up, in the smallest compass, a weight that had rested on Clennam's life; and he made no answer.
Charles Dickens
#18. Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.
Edmund Berkeley
#19. She had concealed her hidden desires even from herself, unable to say why, but she needed no answer. It was enough that she had done what she had done. She had surrendered herself.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. NIKOLA TESLA1
Marc Seifer
#21. When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
Miguel De Cervantes
#22. I didn't know which direction I was going in. I just went on walking and calling out, walking and calling; and each time I called, I would stop and listen. But no answer came.
Roald Dahl
#23. It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.
Robert M. Pirsig
#24. The tests and exams were not so difficult to pass but we fail a 'yes' or 'no' answer when it comes to dealing with sin
Wogu Donald
#25. [...] if Jesus is not the answer to the human condition, there is no answer.
Nik Ripken
#26. This could be the last time I have to wait. But I don't know what I'm waiting for. What are you waiting for? they used to say. That meant Hurry up. No answer was expected. For what are you waiting is a different question, and I have no answer for that one either.
Margaret Atwood
#27. Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. Anything else has no relevance. I can't be what you need me to be. So you'll have to accept this version or waste your time questioning something that has no answer. I know acceptance isn't easy when you're unsure of what you're accepting, but all I can say is that you're accepting me as me.
Krista Ritchie
#29. There's no answer that ends the search, you know. Obviously, there never will be. The artist seeks to capture the world because the nature of every single object is a mystery to him. The philosopher addresses human nature because he's a stranger to every part of it. It
Ethan Canin
#30. What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.
Salomon Bochner
#31. Forcing an answer only guarantees that no answer will come out. - Six
Pittacus Lore
#32. The book of Job does not set out to answer the problem of suffering, but to proclaim a God so great that no answer is needed.
Billy Graham
#33. Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.
Charles Sheffield
#34. Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.
Joe Simon
#35. Maybe that was the only real truth about the world, that there was no answer, that wisdom and experience were no better than a flat-out roll of the dice.
Janet Fitch
#36. There was no answer he knew, until he actually faced death.
Raymond E. Feist
#37. I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.
C.S. Lewis
#38. Lizzie had no answer for how a whore could quiver from the caress of a man, or find tears at words that were sweet. After all, hadn't she been told she was beautiful before? Perfect? Worthy of worship?
She hadn't.
Shewanda Pugh
#39. He who loves knows it. He who loves not, knows it not.
I pity him and make him no answer.
Jennifer Worth
#40. "Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.
Rajneesh
#41. As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.
Stephen King
#42. Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
Marina Abramovic
#43. It's hopeless. And it's stupid. It's suicidal. But love is a weapon they have no answer for. They know how you think, but they can't know what you feel.
Rick Yancey
#44. I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.
Cormac McCarthy
#45. I stand over them and cock my head. 'Is this the first time you've lost at something?' No answer. I frown. 'Well, that must be embarrassing.'
Pierce Brown
#46. If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
G.K. Chesterton
#47. She made no answer, and he went on: What's the use? You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It's beyond human enduring - that's all.
Edith Wharton
#48. An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.
Peter McWilliams
#50. Ask the river, where it comes from? You will get no answer. Ask the river, where is it going? You will get no answer, because the river lives inside this very moment; neither in the past nor in the future, in this very moment only!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tip
out of our favor?"
She had no answer.
Kiersten White
#52. Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
Stephen Covey
#53. When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
C.S. Lewis
#54. Levin felt so resolute and serene that no answer, he fancied, could affect him.
Leo Tolstoy
#55. When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason - God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.
Oswald Chambers
#56. Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making.
Pearl S. Buck
#57. It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
Betty Friedan
#58. There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.
Jimmy Sangster
#59. She walked off to Hurst; and got a good priest there-- one whom she had known at Antwerp-- to write for her. But no answer came. It was like crying into the awful stillness of night.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#60. I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.
C. G. Jung
#61. So as I shivered, naked and damp, in front of the bathroom mirror, I raised my eyes skyward. "I hope we're still okay."
I got no answer, but then, I didn't really expect one. Answer or not, it didn't matter. That's the thing about faith, I guess.
Chloe Neill
#62. You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso
#63. When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.
Jacque Fresco
#64. There was no answer he could give that would fix things, and that hurt most of all. I always do the same thing. Love everyone who crosses my path. Love 'em as much as I can, for as long as they need.
Kit Rocha
#65. A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to ...
Bob Dylan
#66. There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.
Leo Tolstoy
#67. I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.
Edward Abbey
#68. Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men ...
(The Everlasting No)
Thomas Carlyle
#69. The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#70. When God sends no answer and "the cloud remain[s]," we must wait. Yet we can do so with the full assurance of God's provision of manna, water from the rock, shelter, and protection from our enemies. He never keeps us at our post without assuring us of His presence or sending us daily supplies.
Lettie B. Cowman
#71. It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer.
Frederick Lenz
#72. A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.
Derrick Jensen
#73. Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
Leo Tolstoy
#75. The answer is not coming. I have to find an arbitrary point inside the spell of waiting, the open absence, and tear myself away. Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.
Rachel Kushner
#76. In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question.
Neil Postman
#77. Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question.
Flann O'Brien
#78. Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
Gertrude Stein
#79. Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
Shaquille O'Neal
#80. But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.
Anthony Trollope
#81. Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
Dave Hunt
#82. When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
Christian Louboutin
#83. There is no answer to Auschwitz ... To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#84. There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
Raymond Carver
#85. Perhaps no answer would ever be forthcoming, but if he had learned one thing in the last couple of weeks, it was that they must move on. Dwelling in the past would accomplish nothing.
Jaye L. Knight
#86. I asked of the limitless sunshine
How to shine with the dawn's glowing light;
No answer came back from the sunshine,
But my soul heard a whisper, "Burn bright!
K. Balmont
#87. Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#88. This storm you talk of ... t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.
James Hilton
#89. To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
#90. Logic is no answer to passion.
Herb Caen
#91. Why did a demon who possessed the savage strength of a werewolf also need such compelling beauty?
It was one of those philosophical questions that had no answer.
Like why Firefly had been canceled after just one season.
Alexandra Ivy
#92. And the living prayed to their gods and begged for rescue from the armies of the dead, and there was no answer. For there are no gods.
Stacia Kane
#93. I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
Nikola Tesla
#94. It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.
Michelle Kwan
#96. If God created the world, who created God? No answer. If Big Bang caused the universe, what caused the Big Bang? Again, no answer.
NARENDRA MURTY
#97. Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.
S.D. Lawendowski
#98. But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.
Audrey Niffenegger
#99. No one can give you the answer because there is no answer.
Marty Rubin
#100. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
Max Planck
