Fathom Quotes

160 quotes by 133 authors

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible… — Francine Prose
Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor. — Jimmy Buffett
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man â€” the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be… — Jacqueline Carey
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to… — Jeanette Winterson
Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman… — Lisa Kleypas
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish… — Soren Kierkegaard
This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their… — William Shakespeare
I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding… — David Sedaris
And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try… — Robert Jordan
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can… — Nicole Krauss
I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go… — Jim Butcher
Grow strong, my comrade â€¦ that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come… — Will Durant
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is… — W G Sebald
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. — Madeleine L'Engle
Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep. — Jodi Picoult
I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind… — Dodie Smith
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.… — Benjamin Carson
For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it… — Ann Aguirre

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