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Quotes About Mystery

Night is breathing close to us, dark, soft.
~ Denise Levertov
I wanted to know all the bones in your spine, all the pores of your skin, tendrils of body hair. To let all of my skin, my hands, ankles, shoulders, breasts, even my shadow, be forever imprinted with whatever of you is forever unknown of me.
~ Denise Levertov
This great unknowing is part of their holiness.
~ Denise Levertov
He still looked cute enough to justify what was starting to happen, whatever that was.
~ Dennis Cooper
Why do you think UFOs never land? Why don't ghosts just say hello?
~ Dennis Cooper
I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.
~ Dennis Cooper
The light still shone in the dark, a beacon, drawing him forward to the edge of the map, the place where the cartographer might mark "here there be dragons.
~ Dennis Detwiller
The Book of Revelation wages war on the reductionism that chokes awe.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
The reduction of human experience to the explicable is a desperate act of faith in our power to create reality ("what we cannot explain cannot exist"), but this faith cannot satisfy. Into the vacuum of transcendence created by naturalism and technolatry, New Age spirituality is rushing, promising the experience of mystery and awe turned inward, without the troubling concept of accountability to the Creator.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
In contrast to the interludes that delay the cycles of seals and trumpets, nothing impedes the relentless outpouring of the seven bowls of wrath, for they are the last judgments on earth, completing the wrath of God (15:1). The seventh trumpet, which contains the bowls, signals the end of divine forbearance: "there will be delay no longer, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished" (10:0-7).
~ Dennis E. Johnson
Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded...
~ Dennis Elwell
She wears only black-rimmed glasses, and is holding a paperback titled Murder and Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction. Her light
~ Dennis Hart
Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.
~ Dennis Lehane
The truth is that Robert Johnson wrestled a superb art out of the blues tradition, an art that has appealed to generations of both black and white listeners, an art that is an essential element of the ongoing progression that is the freedom principle in operation. Forget the context, the mysteries, and the lies; those twenty-nine masters represent artistic truth.
~ Dennis McNally
Why do we resist the mystery that change brings? When we get too rigid and inflexible, rigor mortis of the soul sets in. For proof of this, we need look no further than to those who choose to stay in a relationship or job long after the soul, or life force, that originally brought it passion and joy has vacated the premises.
~ Dennis Merritt Jones
Mindfulness Makes the Mystery Meaningful
~ Dennis Merritt Jones
God is both transcendent (beyond us) and immanent (near us).
~ Dennis P. Hollinger
That mansion, as it was called, brought on everyone who lived in it, or even went near it, a curse that was like that of the pharaohs.
~ Denys Johnson-Davies
He saw a beautiful lady in red dancing wildly with everyone in the party. Yet, after their dance of passion was over, no one wanted to show any sign of recognition to her. He asked her the reason behind that mystery, and the lady replied with a smile. "Everyone needs me, from Yogi to Bhogi and Upabhogi alike. They all come back to me, again and again. Look at me carefully. I am that most misunderstood and infamous Lust.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Life is always beautiful; even though it may never be the perfect one - for anybody and everybody. So what's a big deal if it's not perfect? Life is always beautiful, in my view, because of the magical mysteries it never ceases to unfold at every moment. So let go the past - and enjoy this moment, this minute, this hour and this day, especially today! Make a great weekend and a wonderful week ahead! Cheers!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
lorsqu'il se agit de connaissances, nous savons qu'une goutte d'eau, tandis que le vaste océan de inconnue se trouve en face de nous.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Want die wêreld en die lewe ís magies, Nero. Op 'n manier. Want ons kan planne maak soos ons wil, maar die heelal steur hom nie daaraan nie.
~ Deon Meyer
Who knows anybody?
~ Derek Kirk Kim