"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would like to give a few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: “WHY?”
And here is the best answer I can give: Because.

Because sometimes, life is damned unfair.

Because sometimes, we lose people we love and it hurts deeply.

Because sometimes, as the writer, you have to put your characters in harm’s way and be willing to go there if it is the right thing for your book, even if it grieves you to do it.

Because sometimes there aren’t really answers to our questions except for what we discover, the meaning we assign them over time.

Because acceptance is yet another of life’s “here’s a side of hurt” lessons and it is never truly acceptance unless it has cost us something to arrive there.

Why, you ask? Because, I answer.

Inadequate yet true."
— Libba Bray

""Why is love intesified by abcenss?""
— Audrey Niffenegger

"Everything affects everything."
— Hannah Baker

"Finding a soul mate is a journey not a destination. "
— Frank Polancic

"There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn’t they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it’s the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it’s worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There’s a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness."
— Thomas Ligotti

"Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it."
— Elizabeth Hawes

"For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?'"
— Vera Nazarian

"Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do."
— Brigid Lowry (Guitar Highway Rose)

"There is a way to master silence
Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners
And listen to the hiss of time outside

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— Paul Bowles

"Why is life so grossly complicated and excruciatingly unfair?"
— Alysha Speer

"I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried."
— John Swartzwelder (The Time Machine Did It)

"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer."
— Robert Lynd

"I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning."
— Karl Kraus

"I have six friends that are honest men; their names are who, what, why, where, how and when."
— Unknown

"nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries toimagine perfection simply revealshis own emptiness"
— George Orwell

"In a college final exam there was one question.

It was : Why ?

Those who put " Because " got a B.

Those who put "Why not ?" got an A.

Anything else was an F."
— Unknown

"Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."
— Finley Peter Dunne

"When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there's not really a reason, it's just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got."
— Courtney Parsons

"I like playing in the sand what's mine is ours If it doesn't remind me of anything"
— Chris Cornell