No Reason Quotes

• I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • School
  • Rain
  • Circumstances

• God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

  

  Elie Faure
  • Child
  • Teach
  • Laughing

• He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Grief
  • Instrument
  • Vengeance

• Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Army
  • Website
  • Walls

• There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Man
  • No Reason

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