Faces Quote by Annie Dillard

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

— Annie Dillard

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a…

— Annie Dillard

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

— Toni Morrison

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that…

— Cennino Cennini

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

— Alix Kates Shulman

Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is…

— Joan D. Chittister

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see…

— Colin Neenan

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without…

— Gustav Mahler

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our…

— Sam Keen

“Life has a way of revealing a side of itself that no rightful mind would expect. It’s like a maze, or pieces to a…

— L.Y. Marlow

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us,…

— Kate Bush

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

— Sidney Buchman