mystery Quotes

"I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious."

"Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself."

"It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes"

"Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses."

"When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey."

“The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.”

“You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.”

“In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply... ...

“We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once... ...

“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”