Quotes About Inscrutability

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

There's no explaining a good woman, he said to himself.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep. I know him not, and never will. But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none?

Much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

Some things were beyond understanding.

People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.

No one knows what women want!

Kindness is a painless thing to give, and easy, a sop to those you do not need. Friendship and kindness have nought to do with this.' For a moment, the look in his eyes, as brilliant as an eagle's in the harsh inscrutability of his face, terrified her. 'I am not kind to the air I breathe, nor the food I eat, nor to you.

It was as if everyone was a Cipher. You could look for keys and clues, but you might never figure them out.

What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because it is there. It is the Empire of the Capital X.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

It is clear to me now that the universe in its truculence doesn't permit itself to be that well known.

Figuring out women is harder than topping a ManPro Quiz.

The only thing a man has to know about women is that he'll never know anything about them.

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.

Tell you," he said, "there ain't a way in this world to know what a human creature is going to do next.

You see, my poor fellow, the hearts of women and she-cats are abysses that neither men nor toms will ever fathom.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

there is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know.

We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.

I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.

Fostering magical thinking, the chivalric romance yields a space-time in which the marvelous co-exists at all times with mundane routines. Its magic is able to envision the invisible, to endow the amorphous with palpable shape, and to place illusion and reality on the same level. Concurrently, the romance reminds us that it is essential to value the magical realm's irreducible alterity and inscrutability, rather than attempt to tame it by rationalizing its wonders.