Mystery Quotes
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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
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In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
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Each episode provides a puzzle piece to a larger mystery.
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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
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George’s eyes lit up as she considered that there might be a mystery to solve.
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It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes.
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By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but they have seen something, and they come down with the glory lingering on them.
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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
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No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.
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I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.
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A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.
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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.
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Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!
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What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
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One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.
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The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
