#explanation

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#bring #child #different #does #dramatic

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. ↗

— Angelus Silesius

#blooms #explanation #rose #she #without

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ↗

— Anais Nin

#explanation #love #no reason #reason #seek

When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.' ("The Basilisk") ↗

— R. Murray Gilchrist

#life #love #life

There has to be new words to explain new worlds. ↗

— Toba Beta

#inspirational #life #new #truth #words

A word is a lot. ↗

— Etgar Keret

#life #love #monologue #life

What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#humor #secrets #story #change

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#explanation #gateway #incomprehensible #only #separates

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#every #every time #explanation #looking #machiavelli