Quotes About Inscrutable

For a Nabokov fan, paging through 'Fine Lines,' which includes a critical introduction and several essayistic evaluations of Nabokov's scientific oeuvre, can feel a bit like reading the second half of 'Pale Fire': one is confronted by a content-rich, almost dementedly tangential commentary on an increasingly inscrutable work.

Fhat thouding do're.

The indecipherable dust, once Shakespeare.

They didn't love or hate anything, or at least so that you could see; it was just that they were in the habit of never showing their hand.

Most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works of art, existences full of secrets whose life continues alongside ours, while ours is transitory.

Siva who is known as Kaalatman, the Soul of Time. Kaala is inscrutable; only Siva is beyond Prakriti, Purusha and Kaala.

Yamadutas, ancient, inscrutable and of many lives unknown are the reasons of Siva.

And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over and inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.

One ship is very much like another, and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

And that's the end. He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart, forgotten, unforgiven, and excessively romantic. Not in the wildest days of his boyish visions could he have seen the alluring shape of such an extraordinary success! For it may very well be that in the short moment of his last proud and unflinching glance, he had beheld the face of that opportunity which, like an Eastern bride, had come veiled to his side.

The childhood of our parents is forever inscrutable, the cave within the cave of our own. The light's too dim, the dancing shadows unreliable, fundamentally unstable, even the impromptu photographs and private letters somehow contrived.

His face was a gaze of primal obtuseness.

She wasn't easy to read. She'd do a devilish thing one day, and a really fine one the next.

tactile than olfactory—but I could discern nothing else about it.

You cannot analyse your personality. It is like trying to understand the essential characteristics of a person.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! LOUISE BOGAN   Your

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!