Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible… — Tana French Copy Share Image
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
What lies in future is always mystery. Don't be afraid to explore what is in present. Take the situation in stride and… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary.… — Anohni Copy Share Image
“∞ The Unseen Universe A Poem by Alexander Martini We live within the universe. Not far, not foreign. But at its heart.… — Alexander Martini Copy Share Image
December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries.… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. “And what we see,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
