Inexplicable Quotes

134 Inexplicable quotes by 121 unique authors

With each new day it becomes more apparent to me that everything and everyone in this world is connected in some beautiful and inexplicable way,… — Andrew McMahon
Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in… — Edward Hirsch
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense… — John Dufresne
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. — C.J. Sansom
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out… — Carrie Brownstein
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In… — Erich Fromm
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. — John Ruskin
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held… — Alan Bradley
Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order… — Garth Stein
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or… — H. L. Mencken
People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness — John D. MacDonald
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. — Jean Hugard
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. — Paul Rusesabagina
When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who… — Norman Macbeth
Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to… — Michael Chabon
No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that… — Michael Shurtleff
Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in… — Hans Kmoch
We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to… — Douglas MacArthur
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or… — May Sarton
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in… — China Mieville
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my… — Franz Kafka
Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people. — Michael Spencer
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle,… — Arnold Bennett
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion

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