Wendell Berry Quotes

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. I always say that I have more questions than answers.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

Zoey: Wait! Don't go yet. I have so many questions. Nyx: Life will reveal to you the choices you must make to answer them.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

Not all questions can be answered.

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

Learn to love the questions themselves.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.