Del Shannon Quotes

What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love?

I don't have answers. I have questions.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

How did they know?.

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Love the questions, themselves.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

I was just wondering why you're here.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

Whatever it was, my mom said, I'm going to seek out more. And so I was constantly confused, which is sometimes a little bit, you know, disorienting. But I feel like it leads to a way more colorful life.