Quotes of Unaccountable - somelinesforyou

“ War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it… ”

- Joseph De Maistre

“ It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. ”

- Robert D. Kaplan

“ My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery — always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. ”

- Max Jacob

“ Authority as he knows it, is always dangerous, selfish, inexplicable. It looks after its own mysterious affairs in a dark privacy. It never explains. ”

- Joyce Cary

“ Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ He was a very experienced man, and for some inexplicable reason, he walked out in front of one of those rollers. We're stunned. ”

- John Hurt

“ In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Beauty, to me, is an esoteric energy that I can't fully comprehend. I'm surrounded by inexplicable beauty all the time. ”

- Greg Evans

“ The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. ”

- H. L. Mencken
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