Top 100 No Reason Quotes
#1. Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.
Neal Shusterman
#2. I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
A.J. Ayer
#3. Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i'm smiling
Luke Kennedy
#4. These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
Tahir Shah
#5. Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
Shirley Chisholm
#6. But now I think that there's no reason that Mrs. Dotta's job is more important than my mother's job. Mamaji wouldn't have a job without Mrs. Dotta's factory, but Mrs. Dotta wouldn't have a factory without Mamaji's work, right?
Cory Doctorow
#7. When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.
Marci Shimoff
#8. Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.
Sean Paul
#9. Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.
Jenna Morasca
#10. You and your beard and your big leather jacket and your big black car and your huge black boots. Nobody wears this much armor unless it has been hurt by someone who had no reason to hurt him.
Joe Hill
#11. No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.
Dejan Stojanovic
#12. I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.
B. H. Roberts
#13. If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.
Charles Trippy
#14. I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
Keith Haring
#15. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
#17. Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.
Anthony Marais
#18. If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.
Thomas Nagel
#19. The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
B.F. Skinner
#20. Young people . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.
Marvin J. Ashton
#21. There is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Peace, and there is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Love.
Alaric Hutchinson
#22. We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
Jeremy Corbyn
#23. The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
Charles Bukowski
#24. The children knew, as I'm sure you know, that there is usually no reason to be afraid of the dark, but even if you are not particularly afraid of something, you might not want to get near it
Lemony Snicket
#25. I have no reason to influence people. I just want to have it all for myself. I just want someone to pat me on the back. (laugh) It's crazy. It seems just completely ridiculous. I don't know why. I mean, three years ago, I wouldn't be able to influence my dog to walk.
Robert Pattinson
#26. Chaos is a natural state of being - as natural as structure is - so there is no reason to fear it. On the contrary, one should embrace it. It means something extraordinary and unexpected is about to happen.
Tohoru Masamune
#27. Sometimes the fridge is empty. Sometimes you run out of booze. Sometimes a guy hits you for no reason. Sometimes life doesn't seem worth living. Sometimes you hate yourself. But there's never a time when you don't enjoy a smoke.
Chloe Thurlow
#28. Many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.
Peg Bracken
#29. The locker rooms were clean when we departed because I asked the players to pick up after themselves. I believe this is just common courtesy. Somebody's going to have to clean it up, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be the person who messed it up.
John Wooden
#30. There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?
Frederick Lenz
#31. If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.
Mads Mikkelsen
#32. Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
Vaclav Havel
#33. I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [ ... ] I do not believe that darkness will endure!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin
#35. In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it ... For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!
Rajneesh
#36. You think you are simply resting, the better to act when the time comes, or for no reason, and you soon find yourself powerless ever to do anything again.
Samuel Beckett
#37. After all, just because you're at the office is no reason to stop thinking.
Anonymous
#38. I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.
Paz De La Huerta
#39. Darling? Did she just call him 'darling', or was it 'dahling'? There was no reason to panic. There were plenty of la-di-dah women who referred to their dogs, drivers, and other la-di-dah women as 'dahling'. It was a perfectly normal thing to do in la-di-dah world.
Shuchi Singh Kalra
#41. There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading.
John Hope Franklin
#42. It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
David McCullough
#44. I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.
Richelle Mead
#45. Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom.
"Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.
Tamora Pierce
#46. If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
#47. Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Deepak Chopra
#48. [I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.
Lemony Snicket
#49. Never settle. There is no reason to rush.
Mark Cuban
#50. As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
Pete Townshend
#51. There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.
Kevin Hart
#52. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#53. Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.
Peter Atkins
#54. The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Thomas Sowell
#55. I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.
Robinson Jeffers
#56. It was September.
In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.
Ray Bradbury
#57. Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.
Travis Browne
#58. I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.
John Lennon
#59. Starbucks has always been about so much more than coffee. But without great coffee, we have no reason to exist.
Howard Schultz
#60. Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#61. A person like this is a blessing for the world. And there is no reason why you couldn't be that person. Why aren't you that person now? Because of these walls of self-protection you've built, these attitudes of limit and lack.
Norman Fischer
#62. I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Ben Hogan
#63. They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.
Mark Helprin
#64. If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.
Laurie Glimcher
#65. There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.
John Steinbeck
#66. Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same ...
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#67. I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.
Ray Bradbury
#68. There is no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out.
Michael Singer
#69. The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.
Larry Dossey
#70. The desires of the human heart know no reason or rules.
Yoko Ogawa
#71. Just because you love someone is no reason to marry them.
Stuart Wilde
#72. True she was old, true she was unbeautiful, true she therefore had no reason to smile, but kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#74. Young man, names are powerful things. You don't just go around using them for no reason.
Rick Riordan
#75. Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason
Jimmy Fallon
#76. There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.
Sebastian Vettel
#77. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
Bertrand Russell
#78. See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
Paul Begala
#79. If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then practice the art of becoming.
If you have no reason or ability to practice the art of becoming, then just be.
If you don't have any reason or ability to just be, then endure.
Elif Shafak
#80. The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
David McCullough Jr.
#81. There had been options, before the baby, but none of them had been pursued ... I had been quiet when there was no reason to be quiet, consisten when consistency didn't matter. For the last twenty years I had lived as if I were taking care of a newborn baby.
Miranda July
#82. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food.
Veronica Rossi
#83. Give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
Rhonda Byrne
#84. As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so the sinner finds no joy in salvation until the horrid nature of his sin is revealed and he sees himself as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
Paul David Washer
#85. I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat
George Bernard Shaw
#86. Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
Geneen Roth
#87. Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear
don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
Sophocles
#88. Recipe for happiness: Live with enthusiasm, smile for no reason, love without conditions, act with purpose, listen with your heart, and laugh often.
Adrian Corday
#89. I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.
Stephanie Mills
#90. I love waking up every single day and going to fencing practice in the morning and just working hard and setting those big goals one after another, and achieving them, and wanting to do it again and again and again. There's no reason for me to stop.
Mariel Zagunis
#91. I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him.
Cormac McCarthy
#92. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Paulo Coelho
#93. There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
William Vickrey
#94. Without the fans there's no reason to be One Direction.
Zayn Malik
#95. Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
Zaha Hadid
#96. And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.
Chris Howard
#98. The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
Thomas Sowell
#99. If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
Berenice Abbott
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