Quotes About Mystery

Love is a dangerous angel.

Siamo gli attori ingenui su una scena di un palcoscenico misterioso e immenso.

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

poesy is the wine of demons...

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

An effective ecumenist loves the Church, because the Church's life is part of the mysteries we assent to in our act of faith. Secondly, we have to meet other Christians always in a spirit of reconciliation, mutual respect and understanding.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

By Timothy! By Timothy, if it isn't Scotland Yard!

I don't see any method at all...Sir

HUGOTONTHEONBIQUIFFINARIANS.

Suspicion is a tenuous thing, so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth is not easy to determine.

What is blacker than the 'raven'? Answer; His Feathers:

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable.

And indeed what are the heavens, the earth, nay every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of [God's] Glory?

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

No, no, not in the law, it ain't. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might

Darkness, grievances and all painful emotions are the realm of the unknown. They are not horrible issues to hide or something wrong that needs to be fixed. When darkness comes into our life, this is a major opportunity to move beyond our bogus self and embrace the mystery of who we truly are.