Question Quotes
5875 quotes by 3632 authors
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So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which…
— Yann Martel
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?…
— George MacDonald
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When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all…
— Haruki Murakami
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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the…
— Amy Hempel
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There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able…
— Edmund White
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the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and…
— Henri Nouwen
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Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all…
— Martin Heidegger
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I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young…
— Rachel Caine
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I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense…
— Haruki Murakami
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Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
— Margaret Atwood
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From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do…
— Lewis Carroll
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
— Kate DiCamillo
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But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if…
— Haruki Murakami
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And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should…
— C.S. Lewis
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Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten.…
— James Patterson
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If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of…
— Derrick Jensen
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