Top 100 Why Did Quotes
#1. If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
John Cleese
#2. It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'
Anna Kendrick
#3. Why'd he name Ram Dass that? And Krishna Das that, instead of vice versa? Is Krishna Das more Krishna like and Ram Dass more Ram-like? Maybe ... why not? We grow into our names. But why did my parents named me Jeffrey and my brother Michael? Who knows?
Surya Das
#4. Why did you leave the condo anyway? Didn't Black tell you to stay put?" "Stay put? I'm not a dog.
Tabatha Vargo
#5. Niccolo frowned. Why did Viktor, and modern humans for that matter, always speak of beasts of burden? Ass this and ass that. Hungry as a horse ...
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#6. I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.
Howard Dietz
#7. Why did knowing grief himself not make him better at knowing how to help?
Lena Coakley
#8. Why did you push her ?' Rosa screams again. I realise she's pointing at me.
Justine Larbalestier
#9. Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life; what's really perplexing is that He suffered in our place. Why did the innocent One suffer for our sins?
C.J. Mahaney
#10. The plateau? she silently demanded of Ty. Why did you turn her loose? She could lead
Elizabeth Lowell
#11. Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?"
"I had hopes, I had hopes."
"Hopes? Hopes of what?"
"I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.
Henri Barbusse
#12. Instead, a strange voice whispered, "How can love be a sin? If God did not want us to love, then why did he create such beauty as yours?" Giulietta gasped in surprise and fear. "Romeo?
Anne Fortier
#13. Why did you do this? You could lose your job or worse."
"I wanted to spend some time alone with you. Tomorrow, you might be leaving for good." He leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. Reluctantly, he pulled away. "You're worth the risk.
Julia Crane
#14. I've never really had a party before." "Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.
Lauren Oliver
#15. I will always need you," I whisper. "All of this time I've waited for you. And you were never coming for me. Why did you let me wait for you?
Carrie Ryan
#16. Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
Idries Shah
#17. Why did you take so much trouble with me today? I know how you hate to move out of that house." "Because you're my child. You and Jem were the children I never had. You two gave me something long ago, and I'm trying to pay my debts. You two helped me a - " "How, sir?
Harper Lee
#18. Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.
William Steig
#19. Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?
Sabrina Jeffries
#20. Was a sandcastle, beautiful but temporary. So why did you give yourself to him in this way, Sofia?
Bella Forrest
#21. You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
George Gordon Byron
#22. There was nothing judgemental or accusatory about the question, so why did I still feel like an idiot?
Alexandra Bracken
#23. Now, why did he have a hard time believing that? ... Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan)
Kinley MacGregor
#24. Why did you fucking leave her, Phillipe?" Bringing his eyes back to mine, he swallows and simply replies,"I wanted to see if I could.
Ella Frank
#25. When late I attempted your pity to move,
Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
But-why did you kick me downstairs?
John Philip Kemble
#26. After another moment of quietness, he asked, "Why did you do it?"
Arobynn's attention drifted back to the wagon, already a small dot in the rolling foothills above Rifthold. "Because I don't like sharing my belongings," was his only response.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. Maybe it was the alcohol. Yeah. That's probably what it was. The booze must have mixed with the romance in the air and turned him soft. But then, if that's all it was, why did his stomach sink to the floor at her reaction? Did he really want to marry her? He looked
Natalie K. Martin
#28. Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
Robin Williams
#29. The right things? Why did he have to seem so perfect? She was
Melody Anne
#30. Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
Paul Gauguin
#31. I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.
Muhammad Ali
#32. Why did we all crave love so badly when half the time it left us annihilated?
Josh Lanyon
#33. Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content?
But he went onward.
Carson McCullers
#34. Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself.
Emily Bronte
#35. If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?
Amir Taheri
#36. How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut apart?
Mizuki Nomura
#37. Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.
Luke Rhinehart
#38. Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?
J.C. Reed
#39. I often think, why did I let her in? Didn't I know she was bad? And I did, of course I did, but I also knew that I couldn't keep that door shut all my life, just because it was dangerous, just because there was a chance of getting hurt.
Kathryn Wesley
#40. Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed - because foolish women gave them the chance
Tessa Dare
#41. Why did You give us so many stories about miracles? Why did You
send Your Son down from heaven? Why did You give us movies if life doesn't ever end well?
What kind of fucking God are You? Do You want me to be miserable for the rest of my life?
Matthew Quick
#42. Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?
Robert Jordan
#43. Was it me? Was I too cold? Too inexperienced? Not pretty enough? Not good enough in bed? And when disloyal, seed-sowing scum buckets slept with other girls, why did women look inward to find fault in themselves?
Tarryn Fisher
#44. Why did the blonde miss her flight? Because when she read the sign on the road that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home.
Various
#46. You write five different things, and none of them work, and then suddenly something does, and you ask yourself, 'Why did that last one work?' I think that's the way the artistic mind works. All writers and artists of all kinds often don't know why things work.
Gilbert Morris
#47. I waited for you."
"But it's a race. Why did you wait for me?"
"I always wait for you. I'm always waiting for you.
Brodi Ashton
#48. I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.
June Carter Cash
#50. Why did I have to look like hell when he looked like he just stepped out of a comic book?
Lola Dodge
#51. If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
Marian Keyes
#52. Why did breathing have to be such a work.
John Green
#53. Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.
Sherwood Smith
#54. "Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...
Marcel Proust
#55. Why was love such an addictive drug?
Why did loving someone cause such suffering?
Guillaume Musso
#56. I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together.
Why did I do it? And would I do it again?
It was I, you see, who ended it.
Nicholas Sparks
#58. Why did my conversational skills take a hike when he was around? -Kayla Madison
Rachel Hawthorne
#59. I knew what was waiting out there for me," he said. "Terrifying things. There were German patrol boats, mine fields, and nearly a thousand miles of stormy seas." "So why did you do it?" "Because also waiting for me was the most terrifying and wonderful thing of all. The future.
Michael Dobbs
#60. Why did you tell Brighton that Ren would know what to do with the info in the journals?"
She smiled faintly and nodded in his direction. "The young man has trust in his eyes."
I opened my mouth, but I wasn't sure how to respond to that. When I peeked at Ren, he was grinning at his booted feet.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#61. 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
#62. Yeah, I can see how much you enjoyed it. Why did you go if it wasn't your thing?"
"I was dating him. It's polite to do things that the other person likes, to be supportive.
Noelle Adams
#63. If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?
Gyles Brandreth
#64. Why did we think having a cub was a good idea?
Nalini Singh
#65. Why is he still here? she asked, pointing to Tristan.
A muscle flexed in his scruffy jaw. Why did he always have sexy scruff. Did the man not own a razor?
Chelsea Fine
#66. The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard."
"Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"
-Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
#67. Why did the reindeer fly over the mountain? Answer: Because he couldn't fly under it.
Andrew Miller
#68. He just never understood how white people could be racist in South Africa. "Africa is full of black people," he would say. "So why would you come all the way to Africa if you hate black people? If you hate black people so much, why did you move into their house?" To him it was insane. Because
Trevor Noah
#69. On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
Robert Green Ingersoll
#70. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!
Charles Dickens
#71. Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?
Valentina Tereshkova
#72. It wasn't like she hadn't come across hot guys throughout the course of the last three years, so why was her heart racing? Why did she feel flushed?
Tami Lund
#73. Q: Why did the bride wear white? A: Because the groom wanted his dishwasher to match his fridge and oven.
Various
#74. At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said.
'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean?
Cinda Williams Chima
#75. Oh dear, here were go again, thought Vimes. Why did I wait until I was married to become strangely attractive to powerful women? Why didn't it happen to me when I was sixteen? I could have done with it then. He
Terry Pratchett
#76. Having our hearts exposed is an extremely vulnerable position to be in. It can make us feel persecuted and alone. Why did this happen to me? we ask. It happened partly because we were fortunate enough to have loved someone. Without love there would be no grief.
June Cerza Kolf
#77. The old dictum was backward. It should be "Better not to
have loved at all, than to love and have lost." I had done the
right thing, I reassured myself. So why did it feel like I had
made the biggest mistake of my life?
Amy Plum
#78. Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay.
Samantha Sotto
#79. Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?
Lynne Truss
#80. Why did any man stay with a woman? Love ... Sex ... Food ... ah, shit ... she didn't know.
Lorraine Beaumont
#82. What the hell was going on, why did I care, and why, oh why, did I not carry a pocket rocket in my purse? My girlie bits were still on fire, screaming for release after Mr. Sex God's orgasmic touch.
Lisa Sanchez
#83. Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation.
Heidi Heilig
#84. When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.
James D. Bradley
#85. Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
Linwood Barclay
#86. It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.
Steve Winwood
#87. Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
Andy Kindler
#88. Eddie's got a broken arm. Why did I lead them down here? Christ! Why did I? "Bill? " Ben said anxiously.
Stephen King
#89. Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie Chan
#90. Why did you choose to save me?"
"I could not let you die." He placed the plate and glass on the kitchen counter.
"But you have let goodness knows how many people die. Why me?"
"You made me ... " He leaned against the counter and looked at her. "You made me ... feel.
Elizabeth Morgan
#91. Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
John Green
#92. Why did they all think alike? Typical bourgeois brainwashed homogeneity? How else could this unvarying calculus abouth the worth of one's own kind measured against the lives of others have come about?
Neel Mukherjee
#93. Why did you choose that name for me?"
"Why, it is who you are." Angharath's tone indicated that the answer was patently obvious. "There is no other name for you. I see you before me, and your Essence shines with that one. You could not be anything else.
D.R. Ranshaw
#94. Why," he asked. "Why did you save her?"
She dragged a hand through her hair. [ ... ]
"Because that golden-haired witch, Asterin ... ," Aelin said. "She screamed Manon's name the way I screamed yours.
Sarah J. Maas
#95. 'Scissorman' is terrifying. The studio at the time didn't want Scissorman because they were afraid that he'd look silly to which my response was, 'Well, then why did buy this because that's what the game is.' But I lost that battle.
Todd Farmer
#96. Peter was the current someone she used to keep from relying on herself, the crutch to hold on to, to promise herself that if she only had him to love, she would have it all come together. Why did she keep throwing men up as smoke screens between herself and herself?
Barbara Howar
#98. If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?
Claudio Ranieri
#99. Why did you pull the arrow out?"
"Because when someone shoots you with an arrow, you immediate response is not "Thanks for the arrow, I think I'll keep it for a while.
Cassandra Clare
#100. Damn you, Terry Glenman! Why did you have to be so charming? Why did you have to make me fall in love? So you could risk your neck and I could die slow watching you?"
-Kelly Armstrong
T. August Green
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