Unanswerable Quotes

45 quotes by 39 authors

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong. — D. H. Lawrence
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we… — Daisy Whitney
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. — William Hazlitt
[FlÃ¼rscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments. — Christopher Kelk Ingold
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the… — Kedar Joshi
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see;… — William Barclay
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. — J.R.R. Tolkien
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. — Hermann Hesse
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. — C.S. Lewis
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the… — Michael Shermer
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. — Sylvia Plath
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive.… — Spider Robinson
The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet… — John Green
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. — Miriam Toews
Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees… — W.N.P. Barbellion
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a… — C.S. Lewis
In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great… — Mervyn Peake
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the… — Carl Sagan
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student… — Ben Shapiro

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