Inexplicable Quotes

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.