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Quotes About Inscrutable

I am told that it is no longer fashionable to believe in a devil — but I care nothing for fashion! A devil there is I am sure, who for some inscrutable reason has a share in the ruling of this planet — a devil who delights in mocking us from the cradle to the grave.
~ Marie Corelli
Es verdad que es imposible conocer a fondo a las personas, todas son insondables.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.
~ Herman Melville
Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know.
~ Stephen Collins
the human is sometimes as inscrutable, as inexplicable, as the supernatural.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
~ Shania Twain
For God made our individuality as well as, and a greater marvel than, our dependence; made our apartness from himself, that freedom should bind us divinely dearer to himself, with a new and inscrutable marvel of love; for the Godhead is still at the root, is the making root of our individuality, and the freer the man, the stronger the bond that binds him to him who made his freedom.
~ George MacDonald
It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.
~ George Orwell
Oh, woman, woman! (...) Thou art a mystery, an abyss, and he who thinks to know thee is totally mad.
~ George Sand
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Los motivos de las mujeres son tan inescrutables...
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
DANGER: HIGHLY INEFFABLE!
~ Stanis?aw Lem
preternaturally private
~ Jonathan Allen
Así los granos de arena pesan a veces como montañas en el destino de un ser humano, y lo que es gota de agua en el cauce de la generalidad, es río impetuoso en el de uno solo, o viceversa, según lo que nosotros llamamos antojos de allá arriba, y no es sino concierto sublime, que no podemos comprender, como no puede una hormiga tragarse el sol.».
~ Benito Perez Galdos
Así los granos de arena pesan a veces como montañas en el destino de un ser humano, y lo que es gota de agua en el cauce de la generalidad, es río impetuoso en el de uno solo, o viceversa, según lo que nosotros llamamos antojos de allá arriba, y no es sino concierto sublime, que no podemos comprender, como no puede una hormiga tragarse el sol.
~ Benito Perez Galdos
Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.
~ Bill Browder
Miss Abigail Westcott, he had concluded during the past week, when he had watched her far more than he had wanted to and far more than was good for him, did most of her living inside herself. Like an iceberg, she showed the merest tip of her totality to the world, even her family. Perhaps especially to them. He wondered if they realized it.
~ Mary Balogh
But it seemed to Abigail that this man was unknowable and deliberately so. He was totally self-contained. Trying to know him was a bit like trying to know granite.
~ Mary Balogh
0 the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!" (Rom. 11:33).
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The ways of the Lord are filled with wonder and mystery.
~ Bette Greene
Il gatto è misterioso e affine alle cose invisibili che l'uomo non potrà mai conoscere;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
They said it had been there before D'Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
DIES MIES JESCHET BOENE DOESEF DOUVEMA ENITEMAUS".
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
~ Nikolai Gogol