No Reason Quotes - Page 14

• Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, House, Half

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• A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.

  Thomas Huxley

  Real, Science, Men

  Quoted in Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1900)

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• I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Grief, Moving, Book

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• For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Today, Reason

  Bill Watterson (1992). “The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We’re back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, Should Have, Boredom

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• Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hurt, Hate, Mean

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• There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, World, Poverty

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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• There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

  Ben Okri

  Fighting, People, Heroism

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• I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

  Louis Sachar

  Giving Up, Life And Love, Mind

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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• He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Saws, Cold

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.260, Pan Macmillan

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• Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Connections

  "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason". Book by Sam Harris, 2004.

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• It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.

  Alison Croggon

  Success, Light, Differences

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• A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

  Norton Juster

  Sweet, Princess, Sight

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  Rachel Caine

  Jealous, Pulse, Reason

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Feast of Fools”, p.14, Allison & Busby

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• Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you dont wake up. But if you happen to you know things will never be the same. Sometimes that's not so bad. Sometimes lives instersect, no rhyme, no reason, except, perhaps, for a passing semi.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Over You, Wake Up, Sometimes

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

  Jacques Rigaut

  People, Larks, Charity

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• Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Loneliness, Hero

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• He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Night, Self

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• What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

  Norton Juster

  Secret, Today, Helping

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Differences, Soldier

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• If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

  Franz Kafka

  Responsibility, Eight, Calm

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Trying, Reason

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.130, Penguin

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• The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

  David James Duncan

  Hurt, Lying, Fall

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• I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

  Frederick Douglass

  Land, Looks, Calling

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.132, Penguin

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