(33 quotes found)
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it”
Max Jacob
“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”
John Steinbeck
“He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.”
Jack Kroll
“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.”
Giorgio de Chirico
“Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.”
Margot Fonteyn
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“With the world divided, the United Nations divided, our country divided and our party divided, it would be inexplicable if we did not have a debate on this crucially important issue.”
Tony Woodley
“To suddenly appear in the Cambrian must remain inexplicable. Clearly, Darwin's theory of life does not fit the fossil evidence for the origin of the major groups of animals.”
Jonathan Wells