Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Lily Tomlin

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
Lily Tomlin

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
Annie Leibovitz

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
Eminem

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
Lee Trevino

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Charles M. Schulz

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. Edwards Deming

If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein