Inscrutable Quotes

59 quotes by 51 authors

I donâ€™t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I donâ€™t know if the whole thingâ€™s an unravelling… — Glen Duncan
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used.… — Richard M. Weaver
Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life. — Machado de Assis
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living… — Lin Yutang
I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan… — John Perry Barlow
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf… — Alison Fell
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable. — Archibald Rutledge
I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father… — Loretta Young
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. — A. E. Coppard
Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling… — William Wordsworth
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from… — Charles Caleb Colton
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of… — David Riesman
Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen. — Bill Watterson
There was something I needed to say. â€œSorry. About before.â€ Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He… — James Patterson
I didnâ€™t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures… — Anne Rice
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles… — Virginia Woolf
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the… — Michael Cunningham
I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. — Bill Watterson
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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