Quotes About Mystery

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow?

he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark

To a terrible place which men's ears             may not hear of, nor their eyes see it.

Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.

Numberless are the world's wonders

None of you knows— and I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, not to say your own.

they] reason'd high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. (Paradise Lost 2.658

Wonders are many ... but none is more wonderful than man

no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.

In relation to the labyrinth of her heart, every young girl is an Ariadne; she owns the thread by which one can find one's way through it, but she owns it without herself knowing how to use it.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

Life: I'll never understand it.

I just have to give credit when it's due because there are some things that took place in my life that I couldn't explain at all.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

It's fascinating how life works.

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

It's never a good thing when the black volhv says "Uh-oh" and then runs for his life.