The admirable is inexplicable.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature…

— Joseph de Maistre

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of…

— Willa Cather

Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an…

— Melina Marchetta

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented…

— Christopher Fry

If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're…

— Jean Houston

When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff [but] you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get…

— Bob Goff

If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden…

— Peter Bergen

We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother…

— Mariama Bâ

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten…

— Susan Hill

“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build…

— Glen David Gold

Love is the only inexplicable language that humans understand.

— Keith Mosaic

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

— Elie Wiesel