Unanswered Questions Quotes

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions, and worry terribly that I might end up being too clear.

I can imagine they're asking for someone, and someone is asking for me. Everyone knows I keep asking for Wonderboy, and I will - I'll keep knocking on the door.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Dead men tell no tales.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

The scientist … creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity … is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

[Jimmy Carter's] campaign strategy was to remain unclear on all the issues.

A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

I wish I wrote 'Don't Speak' by No Doubt. I mean, that is a classic heartbreak song; it gets me every time.

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.