Quotes About Unanswerable Questions

#1. Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

Graham Kendall

#3. Only a sense of humor can help each of us face those great unanswerable questions: Why was I born? Why am I here? Why must I die? What must I do to make my life a triumph? -

George Sheehan

#4. Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Stacy Schiff

#5. Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

Carl Sandburg

#6. Life is full of unanswerable questions including how to live and what to live for. It takes extreme courage to live honestly by a person's beliefs and never rest until a person achieves the type of life that he or she envisions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Miriam Toews

#8. If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

Hannah Arendt

#9. I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.

Missy Higgins

#10. I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.

Jan Brewer

#11. If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

Fran Lebowitz

#12. The trouble with Ian Mackenzie's questions was that he asked the unanswerable. And yet she should know how to answer - everyone should. But they couldn't, because everyone simply knew. Everyone except Ian.

Jennifer Ashley

#13. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys.

Zig Ziglar

#15. Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety - and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

Kelly G. Wilson

#17. Can't make marriage the be-all and end-all. Because if you do it won't work. Listen: from the looks of things we've got one of the few solid marriages around. But it took work, pussycat. Work.' Her eyes gleamed with the victory of that work, the necessity for it.

Andre Dubus

#18. But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Herman Hesse

#19. All right," I managed to say, just before I crumpled to the floor. "Let's see what you've got.

Richelle Mead

#20. I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

Bill Ayers

#21. I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women are bringing up children, it can be chronic, because you have all these other calls on your time.

Nell Leyshon

#22. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

C.S. Lewis

#23. I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

David Cronenberg

#24. The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

John Green

#25. In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

Vincent Nichols

#26. If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.

Jeremy Vaeni

#27. Smart work pays best. Trust it.

Conor McGregor

#28. The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

Timothy Murphy

#29. I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

Shaquille O'Neal

#30. Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#31. The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

Jacob Needleman

#32. To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#33. I may look like Froggy the Gremlin, but in truth I'm Prince Fuckin Charming.

Stephen King

#34. The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

Wendell Pierce