Quotes About Unfathomable

Sometimes people's behavior is seemingly unexplainable.

What can't be known or named except in our feeble attempt to clothe it in language.

for us there still exists a serene, unfathomable abyss in which God and the spirits dwell. The soul, in moments of ecstasy, often soars across it; poetry unveils it at times with childlike naivete; but science with its hammer and yardstick is often perched at the rim and may, in many cases, contribute nothing at all.

God is predictably unpredictable.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

Things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable. occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated

Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.

Cl?diri ÅŸi forme f?r? contur zburau pe lînga el f?r? zgomot, purtate parc? implacabil pe suprafaÅ£a unui val puternic, atemporal.

I'm just saying that there's a lot we can't know," he concluded, and looked at her again. "Actually what we can't know is infinite.

Manche Dinge sind so schrecklich, dass man sie nicht sogleich begreifen kann.

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance

What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen...

Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen …

Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.

Space,' it says, 'is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.