Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby,… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Songwriting is such a mysterious thing. Its a magical channel thats a gift to you and you cant really conjure it up… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You taste of the cool water that hides deep in a stream. You taste of the night air, soft and scented and… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
![“It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/189/bruce-springsteen-546_bits_it-took-quite-a-bit-of-work-and-time-and_1633268.jpg)
![“I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.” quote by Sylvia Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/698/sylvia-beach-69793_book_i-think-hemingway-s-book-titles-should-b_1428652.jpg)
![“Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]” quote by Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/thomas-carlyle-207_centre_force-force-everywhere-force-we-ourselve_859795.jpg)
