“Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.”
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“Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.”
2011, Tucson Memorial Address (January 2011)
Context: Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, "when I looked for light, then came darkness." Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
Context: Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Now this is a simple thing that anybody who has ever argued or quarreled knows perfectly well is a simple thing, only when they read it they do not understand it because they do not see that understanding and believing are not the same thing.
“Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.”
Source: Blacklisted
“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
Source: Sharp Objects
