Quotes About Mystery

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.