Unanswered Questions Quotes

• Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life Lesson, Believe, Memorial

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Patience, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Novelists, Answers, Want

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Fine, Companion

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.205, Penguin

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• Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be?

  Slick Rick

  Rubber

  Song: Treat Her Like A Prostitute, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2011

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• Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

  Joel Osteen

  Trust In God, Unanswered

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• Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Disappointment, Hands, Darkness

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

  Anodea Judith

  Answers, Examination, Unanswered

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• Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?

  Stevie Nicks

  Pain, Rain, Love Is

  Song: Thousand Days

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• Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.

  Gary Zukav

  Life, Simple, Thinking

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• The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Suicide, Philosophy

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• How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Men, Turns

  Song: Blowing In The Wind, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Answers, Want

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• Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Anxiety, Insecurity

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Waiting, Bears

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• Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Want, Profanity, Do You Want Me

  Song: You're No Different

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• Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sick, Sick Society

  Song: You're No Different

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• All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Race

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

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• So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

  Phillip Noyce

  Opportunity, Volcanoes, Stories

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• Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Pay The Price, Lazy

  Song: Did Ya

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• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  Stevie Wonder

  Veins, Sticks, Needles

  Song: Jesus Children Of America, Album: Innervisions, 1973

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• Does what you think of you determine your worth?

  Janet Jackson

  Thinking, Doe, Think Of You

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