A Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

Never Explain Anything

H. P. Lovecraft

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Anything Explain Never Never Explain

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H. P. Lovecraft
American - Writer
August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Alan Watts

Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

Meg Wolitzer

Never do anything that you don’t want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

Jill Shalvis

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

Annie Dillard

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

Philip Roth

I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.

Julie Andrews

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

William of Ockham

Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.

Ben Stein

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

Khloe Kardashian

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

T. S. Eliot

Relativity can, for instance, explain that the universe had once been clumped into a dense fireball. But it can never explain how matter actually behaved.

Alan Guth

I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.