Quotes of: Why-not Keyword

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

The Great Escape

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128

The Goldfinch

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Green Mars

Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?

A Girl Like Me

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

The Green Mile

...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

The Good Psychologist

It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?

God Is in the Pancakes

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?".

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Why me?” I secreted into her ear. “You were the only one I saw,” she whispered back, making my heart burst.

Greed

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism

WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.

Happily Ever After

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Heart-Shaped Box

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Handle with Care

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

Human Detritus

All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often.

High Fidelity

Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE

An A-Hole Goes To Work

Crap. It's all crap. Living is crap. Life has no meaning. None. Nowhere to be found. Crap. Why doesn't anybody realize this?

Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1

A brick could be an object to measure your life against. Are you square, rigid, and inflexible? If yes, are you in the military? If no, why are you acting like a brick? 

Brick and Blanket