180 Why Quotes – having all Kinds of Meanings and Silliness

What is a Why quote? Well in this case we mean quotes using the word why. But because the word why is used in different ways some of the quotes use the word why but are not asking a question or explaining anything.

174. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Here’s what Merriam Webster Dictionary says what why means:
 

why adverb
Definition of why
: for what cause, reason, or purpose why did you do it?

why conjunction
1 : the cause, reason, or purpose for which know why you did it that is why you did it
2 : for which : on account of which know the reason why you did it

why noun, plural whys
1 : reason, cause wants to know the whys and wherefores
2 : a baffling problem : enigma

why interjection
—used to express mild surprise, hesitation, approval, disapproval, or impatience why, here’s what I was looking for

175. “For as long as there’s anyone to ask ‘Why?’ the answer will always be, ‘Why not?” ~ Vera Nazarian

These why quotes will help shed light how different people use the word why. We have tried to keep most of these why quotes short and have passed over the long complicated quotes during our research.

 

180 Why Quotes – Short And Sweet For The Most Part

1. “I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task … a passion.”
~ George Sand

2. “In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not…”
― Bill Gates

3. “Why should I even bother? What’s the point, really?”
He thought for a moment. “Who says there has to be a point?” he asked. “Or a reason. Maybe it’s just something you have to do.”
― Sarah Dessen

4. “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

179. “Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?”
~ Phyllis Diller

5. “Why?’ He asked.
‘Why what?’ What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.”
― Michelle Hodkin

6. “Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?”
― Jeanne DuPrau

7. “I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you’re frowning and crying all the time and saying “why? why?”, they get worried.”
― John Swartzwelder

8. “People are sick, confused and forgetful, and are mystified as to why.”
~ Steven Magee

9. “I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task … a passion.”
– George Sand

10. “There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn’t need an answer.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

179. “I believe it’s a woman’s right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can’t she also wear everything?”
~ Malala Yousafzai

Why Quotes and are there any why quotes we can see?

First there are a few why quotes above. Then there are more, way more following this section.
Some may ask what is the purpose of quotes? Why do we even have them? Good questions so let’s answer them in layman’s terms, short and to the point.

Here are some reasons for why we have quotes:

• To document or pay homage to the person who said it. These are often famous or well-known people.
• Sometimes to provide information in a short easy to understand form.
• Some quotes are to help motivate us.
• Sometimes quotes are used to support arguments.
• Quotes can illuminate the meaning of something.
• Inspiration is a common use for quotes.
• Provide or invoke philosophical thoughts from the reader.

You can probably think of other reasons to use quotes. We’re talking about sentences and not quote or quotation marks. Famous quotations are frequently collected in books that are sometimes called quotation dictionaries or treasuries.

Diaries and calendars often include quotations for entertainment or inspirational purposes. The huge amount of online quotations, combined with the search engines, has effectively made the Internet the world’s quotation storehouse.

It is easy to find an unprecedented number of quotations with very little work involved. In fact if you just want something to do I challenge you to find and count a million quotes. You can do that easily online if you have lots of time.

180. “Why not show off if you’ve got something to show?”
~ January Jones

More Quotes using the Word Why as a Question or Answer or Explanation

11. “Why didn’t they ask the Evans?”
― Agatha Christie, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

12. “In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not…”
― Bill Gates

13. “Why should I even bother? What’s the point, really?”
He thought for a moment. “Who says there has to be a point?” he asked. “Or a reason. Maybe it’s just something you have to do.”
― Sarah Dessen

14. “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

15. “Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?”
― Jeanne DuPrau

16. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
~ Rumi

17. “Why?’ He asked.
‘Why what?’ What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.”
― Michelle Hodkin

18. “I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you’re frowning and crying all the time and saying “why? why?”, they get worried.”
― John Swartzwelder

19. “There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn’t need an answer.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

20. “Why didn’t they ask the Evans?”
― Agatha Christie, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

21. “I don’t spend a lot of time asking “WHY?” Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react.” (p.180)”
― Jeff Dixon

22. “She wouldn’t reveal why
It was she did cry.
She thought she could put aside
How she really feels inside.”
― Heide Velarde

23. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
~ Mark Twain

24. “Maybe the whys and the hows aren’t as important as just the knowing.”
― Tawdra Kandle

25. “To ask why we fall in love is to ask why the leaves fall. And to ask how we stay in love is to ask how the trees stay.”
― Jimvirle/Jinvirle

26. “Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.”
― Albert Einstein

27. “Why not now?”
― Deyth Banger

28. “I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.”
― Jeffrey Fry

29. “So what? So why?”
― Deyth Banger

30. “Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.”
― Dominic Riccitello

31. “I am going to find the secret… I study people facial expression, mood swings, why people talk and why not… how they communicate and power, mascuilinity, carefreeness and more.”
― Deyth Banger,

32. “I’m not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.””
~ William Hazlitt

33. “Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn’t live it to the fullest expression of yourself.”
― Coy Bowles

34. “Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.”
― Cristiano Ronaldo

35. “For me, cooking is the only way I know how to show my love. That’s why I am so passionate about food. It’s such a love language.”
― Ayesha Curry

36. “Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.”
― Nipsey Hussle

37. “Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?”
― Tim Burton

38. “There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?”
― Zendaya

39. “Sometimes I haven’t understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.”
― Jan Brewer

40. “There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.”
~ Oprah Winfrey

41. “Start by asking the question ‘Why’. This is because behind the question ‘Why’ there lies answers to your question.”
― D.S. Mashego

42. “No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?”
― Paulo Freire

43. “Why start something that you won’t see to the end? You need to finish what you start!”
― Nabil N. Jamal

44. “Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will provide much satisfaction.”
― James C. Dobson

45. “Start thinking for yourself, ask ‘why?’ and even venture to say ‘why should I?’ and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a ‘trouble maker’.”
― Christina Engela

46. “Why we do what we do?”
― Deyth Banger

47. “Those who are growing great are always asking “why?” If they fail or lose, they ask “why?” If they succeed or win too, they ask “why?”
― Israelmore Ayivor

48. “If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?”
~ Douglas Horton

49. “If you have answers to the “whys”, it will direct you to the “hows”. As simple as that!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

50.“God Himself even “forgets” the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That’s why it is never too late to clean up your life.”
― James C. Dobson

51. “Here is your most profound “why”: to display and prove GOD”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

52. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.”
― Joan Rivers

53. “I don’t know why, but rain comes into my head the minute I think of my childhood.”
― Dhanush

54. “Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.”
― Eminem

55. “Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.”
― Adam Sandler

56. “Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”
― Robert Kennedy

57. “The answer to every ‘why’ is to ignore it.”
― Marty Rubin

58. “Most of the time, a kid doesn’t think about what he’s doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.”
― Robert Fulghum

59. “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
― Joseph Stalin

60. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
― Zig Ziglar

61. “Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.”
― Taylor Hanson

62. “Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.”
― Aidan Quinn

63. “My childhood is a part of my story, and it’s why I’m who I am today and why my career is what it is.”
― Misty Copeland

64. “You know sometimes when you’re in a really bad mood and you’re not sure why? That’s how I get sometimes.”
― Maisie Williams

65. “Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

66. “If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
― Sojourner Truth

67. “You can make a million excuses for why something didn’t go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.”
― Emily Weiss

68. “I’m hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.”
― Tom Stoppard

69. “Love is so unconditional – love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.” ― BeBe Winans

70. “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
― Alan Dundes

71. “Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That’s why I continue to share my story.”
― Jazz Jennings

72. “Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
― Bertrand Russell

73. “Sometimes you forget you’re famous. You wonder, ‘Why is that person staring at me?‘”
― Bob Newhart

74. “Oh, no. Not you, man. Why did we come here? This place is Hell!”
―~ Jason Medina

75. “‘No fear’ is a mindset that I stand for. It’s the reason why I’ve got to where I am today.”
― Skepta

76. “I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.”
― Sting

77. “My cheeks explode when I smile. That’s why I have to look so nonplussed.”
― Rufus Wainwright

78. “Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?”
― Alexander the Great

176. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
~ James A. Froude

79. “I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”
― Banksy

80. “I’ve spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don’t see why I should start now.”
― Sally Ride

81.”When you look at the world, the world isn’t just one palette. It’s a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?”
― Joan Smalls

82. “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
― Leo Tolstoy

83. “No is an answer, and you are not obligated to explain why.”
~ Nitya Prakash

84. “Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?”
― Sigmund Freud

85. “Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?”
― Alber Elbaz

86. “No-one posts photos of themselves on Instagram when you’re eating spaghetti hoops out of a tin going ‘Why?’”
― Aisling Bea

87. “Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
― Mark Twain

177. “If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’”
~ John Wayne

88. “Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.”
― Simon Sinek

89. “Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”
― Bill Watterson

90. “Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That’s why there’s the old saw: location, location, location.”
― Jeff Bezos

91. “The company accountant is shy and retiring. He’s shy a quarter of a million dollars. That’s why he’s retiring.”
― Milton Berle

92. “How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?”
~ Gustave Flaubert

93. “Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.”
― James Randolph Adams

94. “When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”
― Lisa Loeb

95. “Thank God I’m with the love of my life. That’s why I know I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”
― Garth Brooks

96. “The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive.”
― Gwyneth Paltrow

97. “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

98. “When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”
― Russel Honore

99. “My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.”
― Thornton Wilder

100. “The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
― Russell

101. “The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.”
~ Steven Magee

102. “Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one.”
― Arnold Palmer

103. “Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.”
― Stephen Hawking

104. “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
― Robert Frost

105. “I’ve always had a problem with authority. That’s why I had to be my own boss.”
― Chelsea Handler

106. “Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.”
― Joyce Meyer

107. “There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.”
― Rebecca West

108. “If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?”
― Shannen Doherty

109. “To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’”
Christopher Hitchens

110. “Maybe that’s why I like gymnastics – because I like to fly.”
― Nadia Comaneci

111. “Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.”
~ Steven Magee

112. “Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?”
― Alber Elbaz

113. “I don’t know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.”
― Paul Scholes

114. “Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture.”
― Dave Grohl

115. “I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.”
― Stevie Nicks

116. “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.”
― Kublai Khan

117. “Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

118. “The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
― Jean Cocteau

119. “The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’”
― Alice Walker

120. “Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?”
― Lillie Langtry

121. “We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.”
~ Joyce Meyer

122. “Why don’t you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I’m stronger).”
― Shaquille O’Neal

123. “Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”
― Robert Benchley

124. “I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.”
― Adam Levine

125. “Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”
― Robert Benchley

126. “Why would Russia care about chemical weapons in Syria? They have no incentive to care.”
― Ron DeSantis

127. “Black, brown, white, yellow – why are we always talking about colors? I’m a girl. I believe in a global community.”
― Priyanka Chopra

128. “There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
― Toni Morrison

129. “Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”
Robert Henri

130. “Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?”
~ Kamand Kojouri

131. “Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.”
Salman Khan

132. “Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.”
― Steven Wright

133. “Why buy a book when you can join a library.”
― Ricky Gervais

134. “Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

135. “If it’s the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?”
Robin Williams

136. “Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.”
― Harry S Truman

137. “She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.”
― Benjamin Franklin

138. “We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

139. “You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?”
― Benjamin Franklin

140. “The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

141. “Great art is an escape from the agony of why.”
~ Robert A. Kearse

142. “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”
― Will Rogers

143. “The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?”
― Henry David Thoreau

144. “Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

145. “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
― Dale Carnegie

146. “Hip hop’s all about expression. That’s why I got into it.”
― Kevin Abstract

147. “The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.”
― Young Thug

148. “The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
― Pablo Picasso

149. “Compassion isn’t morose; it’s something replenishing and opening; that’s why it makes us happy.”
― Sharon Salzberg

150. “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
― Eddie Cantor

151. “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
~ Leonardo da Vinci

152. “Why, I’d horse-whip you if I had a horse.”
― Groucho Marx

153. “Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?”
― Groucho Marx

154. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”
― Joe Namath

155. “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
― Michel de Montaigne

156. “I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.”
― Eminem

157. “That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.”
― Corita Kent

158. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”
― Lily Tomlin

159. “An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.”
― Zoe Foster Blake

160. “We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”
― Joseph Stalin

161. “You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”
~ Donald Trump

162. “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
― George Bernard Shaw

163. “Why do you not practice what you preach.”
― St. Jerome

164. “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”
― Barack Obama

165. “The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”
― John Locke

166. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
― Michael Jordan

167. “Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.”
― Johnny Depp

168. “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”
― Vince Lombardi

169. “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
― Robert Frost

170. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
― Henry Ford

171. “I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
~ Coco Chanel

172. “There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
― William Barclay

173. “Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?”
― Deyth Banger

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178. “Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.” ~ Steven Magee