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Quotes About Mystery

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.
~ Thaddeus Mason Harris
Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...
~ Keri Hulme, The Bone People
Explore the deep ocean.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.
~ Richard Preston
Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.
~ Bash? Matsuo
The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It's a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It's just…phenomenal.
~ Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god
~ T.S. Eliot
The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish....
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing.
~ Marty Rubin
A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.
~ Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.
~ Jessie Burton
How wrong and petty any life is.
~ David Wojahn, Mystery Train
Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.
~ J.S. Watts, Witchlight
What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.
~ Rampo Edogawa
...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.
~ Adam Nevill, Last Days
The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.
~ Alison Croggon, The Riddle
It was great to see the owls, " I said.She smiled."Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful.
~ David Almond, Skellig
Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain
~ Chief Justice Moalusi Tlotlo
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws.
~ H.P. Lovecraft