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UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?
AMBOY DUKES
It's an unanswered question, but let us still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Sexual harassment at work—is it a problem for the self-employed?
VICTORIA WOOD
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted; musicians denoted; cowboys deranged; models deposed; tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?
VIRGINIA OSTMAN
Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?
ARTEMUS WARD
Why do they call them tellers? They never tell you anything. They just ask questions. And why do they call it interest? It's boring. And another thing—how come the Trust Department has all their pens chained to the table?
COACH ERNIE PANTUSSO CHEERS
I'm only the Pope, what can I do?
POPE JOHN XXIII
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
LUCY VAN PELT PEANUTS
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
MARK TWAIN
UNDERSTANDING
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
CARL JUNG
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
ERICH FROMM
UNHAPPINESS
See also DISSATISFACTION, SUFFERING
Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD
Cast away care; he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow.
THOMAS DEKKER
Sob, heavy world, Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist, remote from the happy.
W. H. AUDEN THE AGE OF ANXIETY
Well, isn't life a picnic? I get to be miserable forever. I'm just going to have to mope and be unhappy and then one day I'll die.
STEPHANIE VANDERKELLAN NEWHART
UNWORTHINESS
"If you can't do it." "You're not good enough!" "Don't even try!" "Who do you think you are?" "You'll never make it!" "Settle down!" "You don't deserve it!" "Somebody better than you should have it!"
JACK CANFIELD quoting the vulture of unworthiness sitting on your shoulder
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself— and how little I deserve it.
W. S. GILBERT
FERDINAND: Wherefore weep you? MIRANDA: At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give; and much less take What I shall die to want.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE TEMPEST
Thank you for the present, but what's wrong with the stuff?
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX
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