Top 100 Without Reason Quotes
#1. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.
Claudia Rankine
#2. Faith is belief without reason; we operate on reason and nothing but. I have zero faith in my crew, just absolute confidence.
Iain M. Banks
#3. Those who look for a reason to fear will find one, and those without reason will follow.
C.M. McCoy
#5. Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Benjamin Whichcote
#6. To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end ... THIS is achievement
Neil Patel
#7. Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.
Anthony Trollope
#8. ... beg Love's pardon for your want of faith. Helen chose you without reason because she loves you without cause; embrace her without question and watch your weather change.
John Barth
#9. Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.
Charles Dickens
#11. Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
Nalini Singh
#12. God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
Saint Augustine
#13. I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
Haruki Murakami
#15. She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
Ada Leverson
#16. Why do you worry without cause? Whom do you fear without reason? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born, nor does it die.
Nitin Agarwal
#17. A fool is 'happy' when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason. That's what makes happiness the ultimate discipline
Dan Millman
#18. To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.
Michele Cassou
#19. The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.
Angelus Silesius
#20. I love you Beautiful. I won't let you go"
"If you want to push then push, baby. Push me, test me, fight me. But I am not going, Aria. I. Love. You. Without condition, without reason, without judgement. Unconditionally, baby
Amanda Kaitlyn
#21. That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
Plato
#22. For bourgeois classes as such have seldom before and never since displayed heroism. It was "the last of our heroisms", as Carlyle, not without reason, has said.
Max Weber
#23. It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
Hans Frank
#24. People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'
Lord Chesterfield
#25. Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.
Benjamin Silliman
#26. It is not without reason that the Evangelist is careful to tell us the smallest details. For these two disciples signify two peoples, the Jews [by John] and the Gentiles [by Peter].
Thomas Aquinas
#28. . . . people are only loaned to those who love them; they cannot be held, but can disappear in a moment without reason, without justice, without hope.
Suzanne Massie
#29. Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.
Michel De Montaigne
#30. Laugh without reason, live for the moment, live with passion.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Religion without reason is like making love without love.
Abhijit Naskar
#32. If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.
Tony Robbins
#33. And like everyone whom the gods spoil without reason, I feel a kind of anxiety buried at the heart of my happiness. It's all too beautiful, too flawless, too complete.
Sandor Marai
#35. 'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.
Stefanie Powers
#36. What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
Richard Wright
#37. Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
Cesare Lombroso
#39. It is a foolish man who apologizes without reason.
Karen Hawkins
#40. Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
Dan Millman
#41. They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.
Thomas Sydenham
#42. A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone.
James L. Sutter
#43. When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.
Habib Ali Al-Jifri
#44. If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.
John Le Carre
#47. But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy - a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.
Thomas Hardy
#48. It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about
Karl Marlantes
#49. Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.
Johann Georg Hamann
#50. Faith without reason produces a mindless Christianity which is less than useless; the focus on justice in this world produces a theology that chases its own tail."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#51. Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason ... now I have a reason.
Benny Hill
#52. Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
Junipero Serra
#53. The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
Kofi Annan
#55. I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.
Juliette Drouet
#56. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#58. Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. Surely not without reason, when pirates, highwaymen, and other varieties of the extensive genus Marauder, are the only beau ideal of the active, as splenetic and railing misanthropy is of the speculative energy.
Thomas Love Peacock
#60. Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.
James Randi
#61. It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant.
Flannery O'Connor
#62. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
Martin Amis
#63. Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
Isaac Asimov
#64. Without reason, there is no concentration. Without concentration, there is no reason.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#65. Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die.
Sarah Kane
#66. Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
#68. Force without reason falls of its own weight.
Horace
#69. Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.
Nalini Singh
#70. I am happy to crush my enemies underfoot, but I don't fight without reason. I don't want war without end.
Rick Riordan
#71. A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
Socrates
#72. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
Rick Warren
#73. One of the suckiest and most frustrating facts of life is that sometimes relationship just end, often without reason. I truly believe that sometimes both men and women simply run out of love, even when there was a lot of it in the beginning
Greg Behrendt
#75. It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
James Russell Lowell
#76. Some fighter's waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.
Jack Johnson
#77. Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
Fernand Braudel
#78. Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.
Clive Barker
#79. I want to live like a kid,
Away from bothering about others,
Smile without reason but true from heart,
Cry little harder instead of keeping hard things inside,
Stand up again with more determination when i fall,
And enjoy the gift of life by sharing gift of smile with others.
Nitish Sharma
#80. Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#82. Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason.
Clement Of Alexandria
#83. I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.
John Lloyd
#84. Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
Lin Yutang
#85. The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
Albert Camus
#86. Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
Abhishek Bachchan
#87. War changes that. Crimes start to happen without reason, because people are upset, or angry, or just frustrated. Acts of violence are squalid, casual, mundane. Contrition, misery, fingerprints everywhere, children in tears.
Christopher Fowler
#88. Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
Nicholas Sparks
#90. Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world.
Roel Van Sleeuwen
#91. When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.
Ayn Rand
#93. If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
Emil Cioran
#94. I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.
Isabel Allende
#95. To make it a perfect season,
love everyone without reason.
Debasish Mridha
#96. These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.
Steven Morrissey
#97. Each blade of grass, each little bug, ant, golden bee, knows its way amazingly; being without reason, they witness to the divine mystery, they ceaselessly enact it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#98. A radical is he who has no sense ... fights without reason ... I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that's what I am.
Fela Kuti
#99. This crazy, blind beating of wings caused by man-made light ... this irrational connection between spiders, moths and light. If a law appeared without reason, like this, what would one believe in?
Kobo Abe
#100. Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
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