Jim Courier Quotes

Life can be very strange.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

Some things were beyond understanding.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

Who would have thought it?

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.