“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.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
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.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
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.”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Blacklisted
“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
“Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.”
Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire
Source: The Throne of Fire