(noun) The act or process of explaining. Example: "The explanation was long and drawn-out."
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
"I just want to be held without having to explain myself."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"If I wasn't worthy of explanation, you aren't worth being remembered."
"Time will explain."
"The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out."
"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
"I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself."
"To define is to limit."
"You don't owe them an explanation."