Quotes About Mysterious

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

None of this work, in my view, has come to terms with the potential implications of the abduction phenomenon for the expansion of human consciousness or the meaning for our world of this apparent opening to a mysterious reality that may be beyond the manifest physical world.

This has not meant a blind surrender to the aliens' purposes, but is, rather, the recognition of the need to let go of control in the face of mysterious forces that she cannot usefully oppose.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

he was a little dark, a little private, Hunt was okay

Even in a place like this, there are dark corners.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?To what green altar, O mysterious priest,Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

But true sadness is actually the opposite, an exuberant upwelling that reminds you how fleeting and mysterious and open-ended life can be.

she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.

We've hauled a whole lot of weirdness back to civilization, and I'd really like some insight into how two ships and two crews were mysteriously disable, and what exactly this walker is for.

It was a smooth voice, androgynous, and cultured, unexpected.

She smiled, showing flesh-tearing teeth, and undressed him quite meticulously with her eyes.

There should be no thought of burdens in the mysterious interweaving of one life with another. It must be that the weakness in oneself which one thought pressed most heavily upon others to their harm was in reality a blessing to them, while on the occasions when one thought oneself doing great good, one was as likely as not doing great harm; if self-congratulations were present, sure to be doing harm.

I mean, angels are unresponsive. They mind their business — which is as it should be.

Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy.

Faeries can be quite mean if they are provoked.

He was the brother of the one that [I'd photographed]. I was just walking in the mall, ran into him, didn't know him from Adam—how many are the chances of that happening? Astronomical." When I read this, I stared at it. Was this a slip of the tongue by a serial killer who severed heads, who'd admitted being in Miami when the Walsh child was reported lost?

The oldest and most enduring element of the religious phenomena is probably the existence of hidden, mysterious, and powerful forces and agencies in the world around us, which are feared, handled with care, and negotiated with.

Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.

What tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and his sweet and charming Christine!... What had become of that wonderful, mysterious artist of whom the world was never, never to hear again?...

May one ask at least to what darkness you are returning?… For what hell are you leaving, mysterious lady…or for what paradise?

She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it.

He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.