We Cannot Quotes

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And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering.… — Arundhati Roy
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way. — Aldous Huxley
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no… — Emile M. Cioran
why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which… — Marian Keyes
Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole… — Andrew Sean Greer
Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well. — Dalai Lama
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. — Chris Cleave
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that… — Francis Chan
As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what… — Patricia Briggs
It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which… — Alexander Lowen
I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives… — Susan Fletcher
Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues. — Edward Abbey
We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us. — Simone Weil
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a… — Madeleine L'Engle
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. — Madeleine L'Engle
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do… — Zadie Smith
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things… — Rachel Carson
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing… — Richard Paul Evans

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