Asking Why Quotes

“Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“I wanted to ask, 'Why did you let this happen?' but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti

“There’s a dream I keep having,“ Sheridan whispered into the telephone. “The dream has always been the same—until tonight.”

“And what happened tonight?” asked Lil’ John.

Sheridan hesitated, his words stumbling out in tentative phrases: “The man in my dream . . . he spoke to me for the first time . . . he told me of a sacred gift that had been lost . . . a gift that could save the world.”

“Your dream,” John urged gently. “Is the gods conspiring to give you freedom, just like the elders sang that night in the Sundance ceremony:”
When worlds collide
There sounds a tolling
A call to rise
And seize the moment
The gods conspire
To give us freedom
When worlds collide
The journey has begun
Sheridan pulled at the collar of his t-shirt, Lil’ John’s words suffocating him. Pushing back from the precipice of dread, Sheridan strained to speak, his husky words weak and staggering: “What are you saying?”

“Your search for the sacred gift has already begun . . .”
― Phillip White

“Why?" People love that question, but the answer is usually much less enlightening than they would think.”
― Frank J. Fleming, Superego

“The first step to extirpate something you don’t like is to ask it a good question.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo