143 Quotes About Explanation

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Real freedom is saying 'no' without giving a reason.

There are certain points I do not yet understand:They will be clear later. I am also convincedThat you only hold a fragment of the explanation.It is only because of what you do not understandThat you feel the need to declare what you do.There is more to understand: hold fast to thatAs the way to freedom.

If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people don’t have.I was happy because I didn’t ask for anything at all,Or tried to find anything,And I didn’t find any more explanationThan the word explanation having no meaning at all.

When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not going to translate. It’s going to lose.

Man is so accustomed to causal thinking that he is ready to deny the authenticity of a phenomenon for which there is no explanation.

When our lives are difficult beyond description, we must remember that our God is good beyond explanation.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.("The Wendigo")